Re: [PATCH] send-email: add newline for improved readability
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- Dragan Simic <dsimic@manjaro.org>
- Date
- Mar 28, 2024, 18:32 UTC
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- <6f2cef522326b692d7c4795dcb2676fc@manjaro.org>
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- <6ee28707b9eb8bd8fdfc8756c351455c6bc3bb62.1711447365.git.dsimic@manjaro.org>
On 2024-03-26 11:04, Dragan Simic wrote:
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> When sending multiple patches at once, without confirming the sending > of each > patch separately, the displayed result statuses of sending each patch > become > bunched together with the messages produced for the subsequent patch. > This > unnecessarily makes discerning each of the result statuses a bit > difficult, > as visible in the sample output excerpt below:
Just to clarify, this isn't about making code "neater", :) but about making the outputs more readable. Perhaps the patch subject could've been selected better, to be more descriptive.
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>
> ...
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
>
> Result: 250
> OK. Log says:
> ...
>
> Let's add a newline after each displayed result status, to make reading
> the
> produced outputs much easier, as visible in the sample output excerpt
> below:
>
> ...
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
>
> Result: 250
>
> OK. Log says:
> ...
>
> This change also adds a newline after the last produced result status,
> which
> may be seen as redundant. Though, it doesn't look too bad, and making
> that
> last newline not displayed would make the code much more complex, which
> would
> not be worth neither the time and effort now, nor the additional
> maintenance
> burden in the future.
>
> While there, remove one spotted stray newline in the code.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dragan Simic <dsimic@manjaro.org>
> ---
> git-send-email.perl | 5 ++---
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/git-send-email.perl b/git-send-email.perl
> index 821b2b3a135a..62505ab2707c 100755
> --- a/git-send-email.perl
> +++ b/git-send-email.perl
> @@ -1576,7 +1576,6 @@ sub send_message {
> print $sm "$header\n$message";
> close $sm or die $!;
> } else {
> -
> if (!defined $smtp_server) {
> die __("The required SMTP server is not properly defined.")
> }
> @@ -1686,9 +1685,9 @@ sub send_message {
> print $header, "\n";
> if ($smtp) {
> print __("Result: "), $smtp->code, ' ',
> - ($smtp->message =~ /\n([^\n]+\n)$/s), "\n";
> + ($smtp->message =~ /\n([^\n]+\n)$/s), "\n\n";
> } else {
> - print __("Result: OK\n");
> + print __("Result: OK\n\n");
> }
> }