From: Junio C Hamano Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 18:47:18 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] log_ref_write() -- do not chomp reflog message at the first LF Message-ID: <7vsl77m4i1.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> In-Reply-To: Johannes Schindelin writes: > It is not like the reflog messages have to be very verbose; they only have > to give a hint what the commit was about, and the commit name is the > important information. I've considered it, but decided against it because: (1) I did not like the information lossage; (2) this is solely to help log messages coming from outside the recommended convention, and having excess will not hurt the normal usage; (3) it is not known if messages from outside the recommended convention have enough information on its first line of the first paragraph; the result of s/\n.*/.../ may not be sufficient "hint"; (4) log output are by default piped to "less -S" so extra output gives the user chance to inspect more if he chosses to, without hurting the end user display; and (5) the code was simpler and less error prone to go wrong.