Re: emacs-diffs emails can get long subject if log starts with "*"

[Andreas Schwab]

Glenn Morris <address@hidden> writes:

> If you start your commit message with a "*" (which is quite a common
> practice for Emacs), git-multimail ignores line-breaks in your commit
> log, and stuffs the entire log into the subject of the mail that it
> sends out to emacs-diffs.

This has nothing to do with the asterisk.  The first paragraph of the
log message is taken to be the summary.  You get the same behaviour with
git format-patch or git log --oneline.

Andreas.

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