From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ivan Shmakov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Nonempty second line in commit message (??) Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2015 11:10:18 +0000 Message-ID: <871tk8ukit.fsf@violet.siamics.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1427627458 29655 80.91.229.3 (29 Mar 2015 11:10:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2015 11:10:58 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 29 13:10:51 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YcB7C-0001Qu-0y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 29 Mar 2015 13:10:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56651 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YcB7B-0003w8-0Y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 29 Mar 2015 07:10:49 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53187) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YcB76-0003vt-ON for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Mar 2015 07:10:45 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YcB75-0001hg-KO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Mar 2015 07:10:44 -0400 Original-Received: from fely.am-1.org ([2a01:4f8:d15:1b86::2]:44819) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YcB75-0001eD-BN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Mar 2015 07:10:43 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=siamics.net; s=a2013295; h=Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type:MIME-Version:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:Date:Sender:References:Subject:To:From; bh=0OnqlcBCLCfTb2Me9XZlqq6XMC9l9Zhf5zXz15ZPH8U=; b=Eg84LSA594SNnx/C79aYZUmFPtSicRcH1k4hWUSbKSuv5CzAjNuZnWqKPHXD/ppWc3mst7qSp9fKOUaZX6OlgQPg6yV17CUHjVys2j1cIcjMoBA6aijVd4D9Sb/y9UFrQtrFyeJERJ0DJoS99DbFlWpDan4B6q8G0Oi7x+5O8+0=; Original-Received: from [2a02:2560:6d4:26ca::1:1d] (helo=violet.siamics.net) by fely.am-1.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YcB6u-0005cO-89 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Mar 2015 11:10:32 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=violet.siamics.net) by violet.siamics.net with esmtps (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YcB6k-0000Fi-5k for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Mar 2015 18:10:22 +0700 Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Sun, 29 Mar 2015 00:05:22 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2a01:4f8:d15:1b86::2 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:184511 Archived-At: >>>>> Stefan Monnier writes: >> While commiting I got this error: "Nonempty second line in commit >> message". >> Why can't the second line be non-empty? > Git considers "the summary" (displayed in short logs and things like > that) to be the concatenation of all lines until the first empty > line. I think this convention sucks (if you forget such an empty > line, it leads to ridiculously long "summaries", That=E2=80=99s just =E2=80=9Cthe summary is the first paragraph of the ent= ry=E2=80=9D rule. One could certainly screw up with this convention in place, but that=E2=80=99s also possible with any other convention. > and it forces the addition of an empty line at a spot where you don't > always want one). Any examples for this point? --=20 FSF associate member #7257 http://boycottsystemd.org/ =E2=80=A6 3013 B6A0= 230E 334A