Trac formatting

[Simon Peyton-Jones]

Personally I think commit messages should be formatting-free. 
* I type them into an emacs buffer, with no way to preview any formatting.
* When viewing with git log or other such tools, the formatting just
   gets in the way

Is it easy to change?

Simon

| -----Original Message-----
| From: ghc-devs [mailto:ghc-devs-bounces at haskell.org] On Behalf Of
| Joachim Breitner
| Sent: 12 November 2013 15:53
| To: ghc-devs at haskell.org
| Subject: Re: Trac formatting
| 
| Hi,
| 
| Am Dienstag, den 12.11.2013, 15:24 +0000 schrieb Simon Peyton-Jones:
| > When Trac formats commit messages it is doing a terrible job.  See for
| > example: https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/5996
| >
| > The commit message is nigh illegible until typeset without makup (see
| > comment 10).
| 
| I believe it is a feature, not a bug: Trac encourages you to use
| markdown markup (which supposedly looks good also in plain text) in your
| commit messages. This not only makes them look nice, provides additional
| features like automatic linking (compare the reference to #5996 in
| comment 9 and comment 10).
| 
| In this case the tables should have been indented by 4 spaces, or
| surrounded by {{{..}}}, in the commit message to make it come out
| nicely.
| 
| Whether this is desirable is a different question. I like it, but the
| heavy users of the repository and trac need to decide what they prefer –
| the ability to use markup in the commit messages, or the freedom to do
| any kind of ascii art.
| 
| Greetings,
| Joachim
| 
| 
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