From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2008 09:09:51 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] Retain extra blank lines between the summary and the body
Message-ID: <7vsl05nnds.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.1.00.0802061711231.13593@iabervon.org>

Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> writes:

> 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.