Re: [PATCH] commit-tree: don't append a newline with -F

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Ross Kabus <rkabus@aerotech.com> writes:

> 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 is not correct.  The command adds a missing newline only when
the input ended in an incompete line.

I'd rephrase the whole thing like this:

    commit-tree: do not complete line in -F input

    "git commit-tree -F <file>", unlike "cat <file> | git
    commit-tree" (i.e. feeding the same contents from the standard
    input), added a missing final newline when the input ended in an
    incomplete line.

    Correct this inconsistency by leaving the incomplete line as-is,
    as erring on the side of not touching the input is preferrable
    and expected for a plumbing command like "commit-tree".

if I were doing this patch.

Thanks.

> Signed-off-by: Ross Kabus <rkabus@aerotech.com>
> ---
>  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;
>  		}