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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] format-patch: set default stat_width to 72
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2008 23:12:23 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vr6dmywqg.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080403102214.GA23121@coredump.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Thu, 3 Apr 2008 06:22:14 -0400")

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

>> format-patch already defaults to "--stat --summary -p" if you give it
>> no format options. The default stat is 80, I believe; for format-patch
>> it should probably be bumped to 72 anyway.

> This should be totally harmless and maint-worthy, I would think.

Harmless it might be, in the sense that it won't eat your data.

But it loses information, and I am not sure if it is worth it.  Why do you
even worry about "a few layers of quoting"?  Isn't it a much worse offense
from responder/commenter's part to quote and NOT trimming diffstat part?

 

  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-04  6:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-03 10:22 [PATCH] format-patch: set default stat_width to 72 Jeff King
2008-04-04  6:12 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2008-04-04 10:50   ` Jeff King

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