bzr log --short ... is not. (oops! my bad)

[Colin D Bennett]

On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 09:02:52 -0700
Colin D Bennett <colin at gibibit.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:37:06 +0000
> James Westby <jw+debian at jameswestby.net> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 07:47 -0700, Colin D Bennett wrote:
> > > I'm using Tailor to pull from an upstream CVS server into my local
> > > bzr branch.  It works ok, but I found a quirk that I must assume
> > > bzr is partly responsible for:  when I do bzr log --short, the
> > > revision commit message for revisions that tailor created are
> > > printed in full.
> > > 
> > > An example of 'bzr log --short' output is attached.
> > > 
> > > Is this Bazaar's fault, or is Tailor doing something wrong when it
> > > commits the revisions?
> > 
> > That to me just looks like long commit messages. Can I explain what
> > the purpose of --short is, just so there is no confusion over it?
> > 
> > The default log formatter (--long), prints merged revisions indented
> > under the revisions that merged them, so you would get:
> > 
> >   revno: 324
> >   ...
> >     message of 324
> >     ------------------------------
> >     revno: 315.1.3
> >     ...
> >     message of 315.1.3
> >     ------------------------------
> >     revno: 315.1.2
> >     ...
> >     message of 315.1.2
> >     ...
> >   ------------------------------
> >   revno: 323
> >   ...
> >    message of 323
> > 
> > 
> > --short doesn't print the merged revisions and also compacts some of
> > the metadata that is shown, but doesn't trim the messages in any
> > way.
> > 
> > --line prints only a single line for each revision, with only the
> > first line of the message shown.
> > 
> > Are you expecting --short to trim the messages as well?
> 
> Yes, that is what it does to my commit messages.  I get only the first
> line in the log --short output.

Oops!  I was wrong... I was looking at a branch where my commit
messages were short.

Never mind.

Thanks!
Colin
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