Re: ALSA official git repository

["Sean" <seanlkml@sympatico.ca>]

On Fri, May 27, 2005 12:13 pm, Linus Torvalds said:
> On Fri, 27 May 2005, Jaroslav Kysela wrote:
>>
>> 	I created new git tree for the ALSA project at:
>>
>> rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perex/alsa.git
>
> Your scripts(?) to generate these things are a bit strange, since they
> leave an extra empty line in the commit message, which confuses at least
> gitweb (ie just look at
>
>    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/perex/alsa.git;a=summary
>
> and note how the summary thing looks empty).
>
> Now, arguably gitweb should ignore whitespace at the beginning, but
> equally arguably your commits shouldn't have them either...
>

Perhaps git should enforce this?  Patch attached.


Remove leading empty lines from commit messages.

Signed-off-by: Sean Estabrooks <seanlkml@sympatico.ca>

--- raw/commit-tree.c	2005-05-26 23:38:30.000000000 -0400
+++ argp2/commit-tree.c	2005-05-27 12:46:54.000000000 -0400
@@ -90,6 +90,18 @@
 	free(buf);
 }
 
+static int whitespace(const char *msg) 
+{
+	while (*msg) 
+		switch (*msg) {
+		case ' ': case '\t': case '\n': case '\r':
+			msg++; break;
+		default:
+			return 0;
+		}
+	return 1;
+}
+
 /*
  * Having more than two parents is not strange at all, and this is
  * how multi-way merges are represented.
@@ -112,7 +124,7 @@
 	char comment[1000];
 	struct passwd *pw;
 	char *buffer;
-	unsigned int size;
+	unsigned int size, csize;
 
 	if (argc < 2 || get_sha1_hex(argv[1], tree_sha1) < 0)
 		usage(commit_tree_usage);
@@ -174,8 +186,10 @@
 	add_buffer(&buffer, &size, "committer %s <%s> %s\n\n", commitgecos, commitemail, realdate);
 
 	/* And add the comment */
+	csize = size;
 	while (fgets(comment, sizeof(comment), stdin) != NULL)
-		add_buffer(&buffer, &size, "%s", comment);
+		if (size > csize || ! whitespace(comment))
+			add_buffer(&buffer, &size, "%s", comment);
 
 	write_sha1_file(buffer, size, "commit", commit_sha1);
 	printf("%s\n", sha1_to_hex(commit_sha1));