Re: [PATCH] git-commit: Reformat log messages provided on commandline

Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> writes:

I wouldn't do that for the first line of the message.

Someone typing

$ git commit -m "a very very very very very very very very very very very very long summary" \
             -m "a longer description of the above summary"

Probably doesn't want his first line to be broken (otherwise, git-format-patch and other tools would be confused).

So, that would be more like

echo "$log_message" | (read first_line; echo "$first_line"; fmt)

Perhaps another option would be to provide, say, a -M option, doing

log_message="$log_message

$(echo $1 | fmt)"

to allow people to explicitely say whether they want reformatting. But that's probably overkill.