From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262066AbVFHCIh (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Jun 2005 22:08:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262067AbVFHCIh (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Jun 2005 22:08:37 -0400 Received: from ozlabs.org ([203.10.76.45]:710 "EHLO ozlabs.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262066AbVFHCIf (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Jun 2005 22:08:35 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <17062.21286.601768.751853@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 12:08:38 +1000 From: Paul Mackerras To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Erik Mouw , Kernel Mailing List , Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: Linux v2.6.12-rc6 In-Reply-To: References: <20050607130535.GD16602@harddisk-recovery.com> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 21.4.1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Linus Torvalds writes: > The merge message that goes along with that shortlog entry is > > Author: Linus Torvalds > 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.