git/list[1] front-page[2] threads[3] people[4] search[5] about
 

Re: [PATCH] format-patch: Generate a newline between the subject header and the message body.

From
Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
Jul 13, 2006, 19:38 UTC
Message-ID
<e967en$bi6$1@sea.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To
<44B6369D.6070602@codeweavers.com>
Robert Shearman wrote:
> 
> format-patch previously didn't generate a newline after a subject. This 
> caused the diffstat to not be displayed in messages without a blank line 
> and the first blank line to be eaten in messages with a blank line.

Does this _enforce_ separating commit message into subject+empty line+description? What about commit messages without this structire (e.g. legacy commit messages from import from other SCM, e.g. GNU ChangeLog style)?

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
ShadeHawk on #git
Previous: Robert ShearmanNext: Robert Shearman
Message 2 of 6 in “format-patch: Generate a newline between the subject header and the message body.”
  1. format-patch: Generate a newline between the subject header and the message body.Robert Shearman, Jul 13, 2006
  2. Jakub NarebskiJul 13, 2006
  3. Robert ShearmanJul 13, 2006
  4. Junio C HamanoJul 13, 2006
  5. Junio C HamanoJul 13, 2006
  6. Robert ShearmanJul 13, 2006

Read the whole thread, see it on lore, or plain text.

$ cat FOOTERMessages come from the public archive at lore.kernel.org/git, fetched every hour. The front page is chosen and written each morning by an AI editor and can be wrong; the threads themselves are the record. About and API. For agents: an MCP server at https://gitlist.dev/mcp, and any thread, story or person page as Markdown by adding .md to its URL (or sending Accept: text/markdown). Details in /llms.txt.