Re: git rev-list formatting

From: Eli Barzilay <eli@barzilay.org>
Date: Mar 23, 2010, 12:59 UTC
Message-ID: <m3fx3rnqhz.fsf@winooski.ccs.neu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20100323122603.GA2053@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

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> On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 07:06:38AM -0400, Eli Barzilay wrote:
>
>> > [...]
>> 
>> I've made a copy of the repository at
>> 
>>   http://tmp.barzilay.org/testing.git.tgz
>> 
>> which shows what I said when I run
>> 
>>   git rev-list --pretty="%b" 267d60518
>>   git rev-list --pretty="%b" 84482
>
> The problem is that most of those commits don't _have_ bodies.
> Remember that "%b" is about everything in the commit message after
> the first first paragraph.

*Ugh*... Yes, I've seen that a lot, yet somehow I managed to completely miss it. Sorry about the noise.

> Now one might argue that rev-list should still put in the extra
> newline separator in this case. I haven't been paying attention, but
> hasn't that been discussed in another thread recently?

(That might have made it more confusing, but I should still have guessed what's wrong...)

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