Re: [Bug] commit-tree shouldn't append an extra newline to commit messages

[Ross Kabus <rkabus@aerotech.com>]

Gmail mangled that patch of course...
Ross Kabus
Software Engineer
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On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 4:57 PM, Ross Kabus <rkabus@aerotech.com> wrote:
> From: Ross Kabus <rkabus@aerotech.com>
> Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2017 13:54:52 -0400
> Subject: [PATCH] commit-tree: don't append a newline with -F
>
> This change makes it such that commit-tree -F never appends a newline
> character to the supplied commit message (either from file or stdin).
>
> Previously, commit-tree -F would always append a newline character to
> the text brought in from file or stdin. This has caused confusion in a
> number of ways:
>   - This is a plumbing command and it is generally expected not to do
>     text cleanup or other niceties.
>   - stdin piping with "-F -" appends a newline but stdin piping without
>     -F does not append a newline (inconsistent).
>   - git-commit has the --cleanup=verbatim option that prevents appending
>     a newline with its -F argument. There is no verbatim counterpart to
>     commit-tree -F (inconsistent).
> ---
>  builtin/commit-tree.c | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/builtin/commit-tree.c b/builtin/commit-tree.c
> index 19e898fa4..2177251e2 100644
> --- a/builtin/commit-tree.c
> +++ b/builtin/commit-tree.c
> @@ -102,7 +102,6 @@ int cmd_commit_tree(int argc, const char **argv,
> const char *prefix)
>   if (fd && close(fd))
>   die_errno("git commit-tree: failed to close '%s'",
>    argv[i]);
> - strbuf_complete_line(&buffer);
>   continue;
>   }
>
> --
> 2.13.1.windows.2