Re: [PATCH] send-email: add newline for improved readability

[Dragan Simic <dsimic@manjaro.org>]

On 2024-03-26 11:04, Dragan Simic wrote:
> When sending multiple patches at once, without confirming the sending 
> of each
> patch separately, the displayed result statuses of sending each patch 
> become
> bunched together with the messages produced for the subsequent patch.  
> This
> unnecessarily makes discerning each of the result statuses a bit 
> difficult,
> as visible in the sample output excerpt below:

Just to clarify, this isn't about making code "neater", :) but about 
making
the outputs more readable.  Perhaps the patch subject could've been 
selected
better, to be more descriptive.

> 
>     ...
>     MIME-Version: 1.0
>     Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
> 
>     Result: 250
>     OK. Log says:
>     ...
> 
> Let's add a newline after each displayed result status, to make reading 
> the
> produced outputs much easier, as visible in the sample output excerpt 
> below:
> 
>     ...
>     MIME-Version: 1.0
>     Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
> 
>     Result: 250
> 
>     OK. Log says:
>     ...
> 
> This change also adds a newline after the last produced result status, 
> which
> may be seen as redundant.  Though, it doesn't look too bad, and making 
> that
> last newline not displayed would make the code much more complex, which 
> would
> not be worth neither the time and effort now, nor the additional 
> maintenance
> burden in the future.
> 
> While there, remove one spotted stray newline in the code.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dragan Simic <dsimic@manjaro.org>
> ---
>  git-send-email.perl | 5 ++---
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/git-send-email.perl b/git-send-email.perl
> index 821b2b3a135a..62505ab2707c 100755
> --- a/git-send-email.perl
> +++ b/git-send-email.perl
> @@ -1576,7 +1576,6 @@ sub send_message {
>  		print $sm "$header\n$message";
>  		close $sm or die $!;
>  	} else {
> -
>  		if (!defined $smtp_server) {
>  			die __("The required SMTP server is not properly defined.")
>  		}
> @@ -1686,9 +1685,9 @@ sub send_message {
>  		print $header, "\n";
>  		if ($smtp) {
>  			print __("Result: "), $smtp->code, ' ',
> -				($smtp->message =~ /\n([^\n]+\n)$/s), "\n";
> +				($smtp->message =~ /\n([^\n]+\n)$/s), "\n\n";
>  		} else {
> -			print __("Result: OK\n");
> +			print __("Result: OK\n\n");
>  		}
>  	}