Re: git log --pretty=format joins lines in the subject of commit message

From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 15, 2010, 13:01 UTC
Message-ID: <AANLkTikXwKBUKvrNs3ezKWjBh35Y87q6gZKSyZ=1cZyG@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <DDB24DEE-934B-4C8D-8DAA-595905035AC4@jetbrains.com>

On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 12:55, Kirill Likhodedov <Kirill.Likhodedov@jetbrains.com> wrote:

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> Commit something to a git repository with a commit message with several newlines like this:
>
> ==== commit message starts below ===
> first line
> second line
> third line
>
> fifth line
> === commit message ends above ===
>
> Git treats the first 3 lines as commit message subject and the last line as its body.
>
> 'git log' shows the commit message correctly - exactly like I've entered. So does 'git log --pretty=raw'
>
> But 'git log --pretty=format:%s#%b' joins the first three lines:
> first line second line third line#fifth line
>
> Is it a bug or a feature?

It's probably a feature. We delimit the subject by "\n\n", not "\n". And IIRC subjects in E-Mail can contain \n.

> If it is a feature how can I acquire the original subject of the commit message by using custom format?

Use a log format that gives you the complete message, then pipe it through perl or something to parse it?