[PATCH] Use the first line of commit message in "log --line"

[Michael Ellerman]

On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 10:07 +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 09:56 +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> > On 5/30/06, Robert Collins <robertc at robertcollins.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > firstline seems a little overcomplicated. A simpler version:
> > > def firstline(self, string):
> > > # using a type name as a variable name is frowned upon which is why we
> > > # use string, not str
> > >     return "".join(string.splitlines()[:1])
> > 
> > return string.splitlines()[0]  ?
> > 
> > cheers
> > 
> 
> >>> "".splitlines()[0]
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> IndexError: list index out of range
> 
> 
> While the message should always have content, its less safe ;)

Ah, weird, splitlines sucks :)

>>> ''.split('\n')[0]
''

cheers

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