Re: Linux v2.6.12-rc6

[Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>]

Linus Torvalds writes:

> The merge message that goes along with that shortlog entry is
> 
> 	Author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org>
> 	Date:   Sat Jun 4 08:18:39 2005 -0700
> 
> 	    Automatic merge of 'misc-fixes' branch from
>     
> 	        rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6
> 
> which is pretty readable in the long format, but causes the shortlog to 
> pick up just the partial (largely uninteresing) first line.

This also affects gitk, which takes the first line of the commit
message as the headline.  I could make gitk take the first paragraph
(i.e. until the first blank line) as the headline but even that
wouldn't help since you put a blank line between the "Automatic merge"
line and the actual URL.  Could you leave out that blank line in
future, or do you have a better suggestion?

Paul.