Thread (11 messages) flat view 11 messages, 2 authors, 2016-06-15

Re: [PATCH 3/4] git-commit: only append a newline to -m mesg if necessary

From: Jonathan Nieder <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:56:11

Brandon Casey wrote:
Currently, git will append two newlines to every message supplied via
the -m switch.  The purpose of this is to allow -m to be supplied
multiple times and have each supplied string become a paragraph in the
resulting commit message.

Normally, this does not cause a problem since any trailing newlines will
be removed by the cleanup operation.  If cleanup=verbatim for example,
then the trailing newlines will not be removed and will survive into the
resulting commit message.

Instead, let's ensure that the string supplied to -m is newline terminated,
but only append a second newline when appending additional messages.
[...]
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--- a/builtin/commit.c
+++ b/builtin/commit.c
@@ -124,8 +124,10 @@ static int opt_parse_m(const struct option *opt, const char *arg, int unset)
 	if (unset)
 		strbuf_setlen(buf, 0);
 	else {
+		if (buf->len)
+			strbuf_addch(buf, '\n');
 		strbuf_addstr(buf, arg);
-		strbuf_addstr(buf, "\n\n");
+		strbuf_complete_line(buf);
As long as 'message' always consists of complete lines, this will
append 'arg' as a new paragraph, as desired.  And no other code path
touches 'message', so it always consists of complete lines.

Thanks for a clear patch and explanation.

Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <redacted>

(rest of patch kept unsnipped for reference)
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 	}
 	return 0;
 }
diff --git a/t/t7502-commit.sh b/t/t7502-commit.sh
index 39e55f8..292bc08 100755
--- a/t/t7502-commit.sh
+++ b/t/t7502-commit.sh
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ test_expect_success 'cleanup commit messages (verbatim option,-F)' '
 
 '
 
-test_expect_failure 'cleanup commit messages (verbatim option,-m)' '
+test_expect_success 'cleanup commit messages (verbatim option,-m)' '
 
 	echo >>negative &&
 	git commit --cleanup=verbatim -m "$mesg_with_comment_and_newlines" -a &&
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