commit summary, --pretty=short and other tools
From: Mike Hommey <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:43:35
Hi, I kind of shot myself in the foot with how to type proper commit messages. The git-commit manual page reads: Though not required, it´s a good idea to begin the commit message with a single short (less than 50 character) line summarizing the change, followed by a blank line and then a more thorough description. ... and I happen to not have done the "followed by a blank line" part. Now, git log --pretty=oneline (for instance), shows me the full commit message on one line, which is not really what I would expect... On the other hand, and that's how I got trapped into this, gitweb and gitk only display the first line, be it followed by a blank line or not. So, IMHO, there would be 2 solutions: - either change --pretty=oneline,short and other similar things to take only the first line and change the git-commit manpage (and whenever else this might be written) - or change gitweb, gitk and any other tool that would only take the first line so that it takes the same summary as --pretty=oneline. What do you think ? Mike