From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2011 17:16:29 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] for-each-ref: add split message parts to %(contents:*).
Message-ID: <7vwrdsw5ci.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20110901162222.GC15018@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> We could either leave %(subject) with its historical behavior, or fix it
> to handle multi-line subjects. Although it's technically a regression to
> change it, I tend to think it is simply a bug, as it doesn't match what
> the rest of git (like "git log --format=%s") does.

I think %(subject) should be updated to match %(contents:subject) as a
bugfix, so %(body) should be adjusted to prevent "%(subject)%(body)" from
duplicating lines.

Thanks.

Side note. We probably would want to borrow from pretty-formats to allow
us to say %(subject)%(+body) or something...