Re: commit summary, --pretty=short and other tools

Hi,

On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Andreas Ericsson wrote:

const char *find_commit_subject_end(const char *commit_msg)
{
	const char *dot, *paragraph_end;
		paragraph_end = strstr(commit_msg, "\n\n");
	dot = strchr(commit_msg, '.');
		return min_non_null(dot, paragraph_end); }

would probably get it right very nearly always.

Counterexample (not even mentioning the missing handling of NULL):

http://brick.kernel.dk/git/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=eb66d86e295cd5a8f13221589806e15db62a62fa

And no, the responsible developer showed a strong unwillingness to adapt 
to better tools and workflows.

Ciao,
Dscho