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Re: [PATCH 3/4] Retain extra blank lines between the summary and the body

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Feb 7, 2008, 09:09 UTC
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Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> writes:
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> When we discussed this ages ago, I think we came to the conclusion that it 
> didn't matter. The code doesn't remove extra blank lines from between body 
> paragraphs, so it's a bit arbitrary to remove them between the first line 
> and the following paragraph. And people tend not to have commit messages 
> with blank lines there (in fact, I think git strips them out on commit).

Ah, then "Stripping only at the beginning is inconsistent and wrong" would be a better description. Then that's fine by me in either case.

Thanks for a reminder.
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