Re: [PATCH] shortlog: take the first populated line of the description
On Wed, 5 Mar 2008, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
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> Way back the perl version of shortlog would take the first populated line
> of the commit body. The builtin version mearly takes the first line.
> This leads to empty shortlog entries when there is some viable text in
> the commit.
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> Reinstate this behaviour igoring all lines with nothing but whitespace.
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> Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
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> This seems to be an improvement, returning to the original
> behaviour. I cannot think of any good reason not to take the first
> populated line for a shortlog. The alternative less agressive
> compromise might be to skip only completly empty lines at the
> start, but I am not sure that adds any value.
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> I seem to get a lot of these in converted SVN commits.
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> Comments?
Maybe it is the SVN conversion that needs fixing?
Nicolas