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Re: commit summary, --pretty=short and other tools

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Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com>
Date
Sep 18, 2007, 11:43 UTC
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El 18/9/2007, a las 12:27, Benoit SIGOURE escribió:
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> OK, look, I think this is the typical case where there is no single  
> solution to fit all use cases.
> To handle this specific case, you could say "OK let's stop at  
> punctuation symbols then".  But what if my commit message is "Add  
> namespace::member whatever."

Uh, I don't think you'd stop a punctuation symbol unless it was the last non-whitespace character before the newline.

Even then, as Johannes says, "oneline" is only meant as a hint anyway, so it doesn't really matter that much.

Wincent
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  1. Mike HommeySep 17, 2007
  2. Jeff KingSep 17, 2007
  3. Benoit SIGOURESep 17, 2007
  4. Junio C HamanoSep 18, 2007
  5. Andreas EricssonSep 18, 2007
  6. Johannes SchindelinSep 18, 2007
  7. Andreas EricssonSep 18, 2007
  8. Benoit SIGOURESep 18, 2007
  9. Johannes SchindelinSep 18, 2007
  10. Wincent ColaiutaSep 18, 2007

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