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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emacs-diffs emails can get long subject if log starts with "*"
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 12:49:33 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvsih8qynb.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87389azvuk.fsf@igel.home> (Andreas Schwab's message of "Sat, 22 Nov 2014 23:58:11 +0100")

> This has nothing to do with the asterisk.  The first paragraph of the
> log message is taken to be the summary.  You get the same behaviour with
> git format-patch or git log --oneline.

Oh, really, is that how Git defines the "summary"?  I thought it was
just the first line; and I assumed the email program was just buggy in
this respect.

Then vc-git.el should probably be fixed accordingly to add an empty line
to separate the summary from the rest.


        Stefan



  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-11-24 17:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-22 22:31 emacs-diffs emails can get long subject if log starts with "*" Glenn Morris
2014-11-22 22:58 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-11-22 23:06   ` Glenn Morris
2014-11-23  0:13     ` Glenn Morris
2014-11-23  0:24       ` Glenn Morris
2014-11-23  0:46     ` Paul Eggert
2014-11-23  4:44     ` Yuri Khan
2014-11-23 10:15       ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2014-11-23 16:06       ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-23 23:28         ` Richard Stallman
2014-11-23 16:04     ` Rüdiger Sonderfeld
2014-11-23 17:26       ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-24 17:12       ` Glenn Morris
2014-11-24 17:23         ` Andreas Schwab
2014-11-24 17:49   ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2014-11-24 18:06     ` Andreas Schwab

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