From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Nonempty second line in commit message (??) Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2015 00:05:22 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1427601947 30881 80.91.229.3 (29 Mar 2015 04:05:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2015 04:05:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs-Devel devel To: "Jan D." Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 29 06:05:38 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 1Yc4Te-0001Hr-8x for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 29 Mar 2015 06:05:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55944 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yc4Td-0006Ye-47 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 29 Mar 2015 00:05:33 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56177) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yc4TX-0006YO-Pq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Mar 2015 00:05:28 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yc4TT-0002qz-IF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Mar 2015 00:05:27 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:18304) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yc4TT-0002qv-EZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Mar 2015 00:05:23 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgUFAGvvdVRBbthL/2dsb2JhbAA3gVOhb4EIgXUBAQQBViMFCws0EhQYDSSIE6IRi3UuQQkDAQKDPgMLBASDXQSoOw X-IPAS-Result: AgUFAGvvdVRBbthL/2dsb2JhbAA3gVOhb4EIgXUBAQQBViMFCws0EhQYDSSIE6IRi3UuQQkDAQKDPgMLBASDXQSoOw X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.01,1,1400040000"; d="scan'208";a="114862700" Original-Received: from 65-110-216-75.cpe.pppoe.ca (HELO pastel.home) ([65.110.216.75]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 29 Mar 2015 00:05:23 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id D4F11144D; Sun, 29 Mar 2015 00:05:22 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Jan D.'s message of "Sat, 28 Mar 2015 23:09:17 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.181 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:184499 Archived-At: > 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", and it forces the addition of an empty line at a spot where you don't always want one). Stefan