short and long log messages

[Alexander Belchenko]

Matthieu Moy пишет:
> Hi,
> 
> Something I liked in GNU Arch was the short Vs long log message (-s and 
> -L on the command line, or Summary: ... and body in the log message 
> header).
> 
> This allows a simple one-line description, convenient in, at least, "bzr 
> log --line" and perhaps "bzr log --short", as well as a detailed one 
> (that you can get with "bzr log -r XX").
> 
> AFAIK, there is no such thing in bzr. Indeed, a user can use the first 
> line of the log message as a short description, and the next as a long 
> one. I think this is the way to do it, but this deserve a little support 
> in bzr itself: the log formatter for "--line" and "--short" should split 
> the message at the first newline, instead of truncating after a number 
> of characters. The patch below does this for --line.
> 
> Also, this should be documented as such (in the tutorial probably).
> 
> Any opinion?

+0 on concept.

-1 on realisation by changing current log formatters.
I think it's better to write plugin that register new log formatter 
object via bzrlib.log.register_formatter() function -- yes, it's already 
present in bzr.dev -- rather than break current behavior of built-ins 
formatter.

--
Alexander