[Monotone-devel] Re: Status on multiple --message commit patch?

[Bruce Stephens]

Thomas Moschny <address@hidden> writes:

> On Wednesday 11 October 2006 10:41 Nathaniel Smith wrote:
>> The offending change in all the cases I looked at seemed to be that with
>> the patch, "-m foo" now causes the commit message to be "foo\n",
>> rather than straight "foo".  Not too unreasonable a change...
>
> Do we really want to unconditionally append a newline to *all* commit 
> messages 
> from now on? Personally, I don't think this is a good idea.

I presume it applies only to -m/--message options, so if you specify
--message-file you get exactly what's in the file.  (i.e., not the
contents plus a newline.)

Seems OK to me.  It's a change, but seems unobjectionable.