From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2010 01:30:37 GMT
Subject: Re: Re: [PATCH] Add `%B' in format strings for raw commit body in `git log' and friends
Message-ID: <7vljd2y9c2.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <19385.5077.27968.796350@winooski.ccs.neu.edu>

Eli Barzilay <eli@barzilay.org> writes:

> On Apr  4, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> Isn't this the same as "%s%n%+b"?
>
> The problem with that is that it wraps the first paragraph.  So it's
> fine as long as it's always used as a subject line.
>
> (I'm migrating a project to git, and some people will never remember
> to do that.)

Ok, but then "rev-list --pretty=format:%B" would not be as a good tool for
migration to begin with (imagine a log message that begins with "commit"),
compared to say "rev-list --pretty=raw".

It also feels a bit funny to list %B that doesn't do the paragraph
pretty-printing in pretty-formats.txt documentation ;-) but that is not an
objection.