Re: [RFC PATCH] builtin-log: Add options to --coverletter

Joe> Currently the coverletter options for wrapping long lines Joe> in the shortlog are: on, wrap as position72, with fixed indents.

Joe> I think these defaults can produce poor looking output.

Joe> This patch allows these to be optionally specified on the Joe> command line with --cover-letter[=wrap[,pos[,in1[,in2]]]]

Joe> I'm not sure this is the right approach though.

If one wants to be really cool, one could borrow the relevant code from GNU fmt(1). (Be sure to grab from a release before the switch to GPL3.)

GNU fmt(1) uses an algorithm based on TeX's and produces *much* better results than anything else I've seen.

It is currently distributed as part of coreutils.

-JimC