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Re: MarkDown in the Commit dialog?

From: Andy Levy <andy.levy_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 09:47:52 -0400

On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 9:41 AM, Ron W <ronw.mrmx_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 8:42 AM, Martin Lemburg <martin.lemburg_at_gmx.net>
> wrote:
>>
>> have there been any thoughts on enhancing the commit messages to contain
>> MarkDown, which could be rendered in the log?
>
>
> While this sounds good, everyone has their own preferred wiki/text
> formatting mark up, so I think it would be better to avoid the debate and
> just leave the commit messages as plain text.
>
> While I understand that this would make them look better, particularly if
> you are generating release summaries from the commit comments, many of these
> mark-ups, including MarkDown, are very readable without being rendered.
>

One could enter MarkDown in the log messages, then render them in the
process of publishing a changelog *from* the logs (not unlike doing an
XML -> HTML transform).

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