Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] Make find_commit_subject() consistent with --format=%s

> Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > In an intermediate iteration of my rebase--helper patches, I
> > accidentally generated commits with more than one empty line
> > between the header and the commit message. When using
> > find_commit_subject() to show the oneline, it turned up empty, even
> > if the output of `git show --format=%s` looked fine.
> 
> Much easier to read with s/this developer/I/g ;-)

> > Turned out that the pretty-printing machinery helpfully skipped any
> > blank lines before the commit message.
> >
> > In the first iteration of this patch, I failed to notice that
> > the skip_empty_lines() function used by the pretty printing (which is
> > declared static, and therefore I originally did not use it in order to
> > keep the patch as minimal as possible) skips also blank lines.
> 
> By the way, I think skip_empty_lines() is misnamed, and I think your
> use of "blank lines" in the previous paragraph indicates that you
> agree ;-) It probably was OK back when it was a file-local static
> helper in pretty.c, but it becomes a part of the global API with
> 1/2, renaming it to skip_blank_lines() may be a good thing to do
> there at the same time.
> 
> I could do the tweaking while queuing if you too think it should
> happen; that way we'd save one roundtrip ;-).