Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schinde...@gmx.de> writes:
> Hi Junio,
>
> On Mon, 20 Jun 2016, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schinde...@gmx.de> writes:
>>
>> > Just like the pretty printing machinery, we should simply ignore empty
>> > lines at the beginning of the commit messages.
>> >
>> > This discrepancy was noticed when an early version of the rebase--helper
>> > produced commit objects with more than one empty line between the header
>> > and the commit message.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schinde...@gmx.de>
>> > ---
>> > Published-As:
>> > https://github.com/dscho/git/releases/tag/leading-empty-lines-v1
>> >
>> > Aaaaand another patch from the rebase--helper front. I guess I'll
>> > call it a day with this one.
>>
>> Makes sense. This has a trivial textual conflict with cleanup
>> patches in flight, I think, but that is not a big problem.
>
> I will gladly resend rebased to `next`, if you wish.
No, I'd prefer a patch that applies to 'master' for a new feature;
there is no need to deliberately get taken hostage by other topics.
>> It does hint that we might want to find a library function that can
>> replace a hand-rolled while loop we are adding here, though ;-)
>
> Heh. I cannot help you with that ;-)
The reason it hints such a thing is because the line nearby that
does this:
for (eol = p; *eol && *eol != '\n'; eol++)
; /* do nothing */
gets rewritten to
eol = strchrnul(p, '\n');
i.e. "give me the pointer to the first byte that is '\n', or EOS".
Your patch introduces a similar loop with similar (but different)
purpose:
while (*p == '\n')
p++;
which would have been helped if there were a helper with an
opposite function, i.e.
p = strcchrnul(p, '\n');
i.e. "give me the pointer to the first byte that is not '\n', or EOS".
But there is no such thing. Although p += strcspn(p, "\n") is a
possibility, that somehow feels a bit odd. And that is why I did
not hint any existing function and said "might want to find".
HOWEVER.
Stepping back a bit, I think what we actually want is
p = skip_blank_lines(p);
that skips any and all blank lines, including an empty line that
consists of all whitespace.
For example
(
# grab the header lines
git cat-file commit HEAD | sed -e '/^$/q'
# throw in random blank lines
echo
echo " "
echo " "
echo " "
echo
echo "Title line"
) | git hash-object -w -t commit --stdin
would mint a commit object that has many blank lines in the front,
some have whitespace and are not empty. If you give it to
git show -s | cat -e
git show -s --oneline | cat -e
I think you would see what I mean.
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