git-debrebase: merge: Improve some xxx comments

[dgit.git] / Debian / Dgit.pm

diff --git a/Debian/Dgit.pm b/Debian/Dgit.pm
index 3d517e1e56b8d350648f2a8c55252d15a4014708..34e40a3b0ab684327533e868de48e95f7d4d241e 100644 (file)
--- a/Debian/Dgit.pm
+++ b/Debian/Dgit.pm
@@ -159,11 +159,21 @@ sub enabledebuglevel ($) {
 }
     
 sub printdebug {
+    # Prints a prefix, and @_, to DEBUG.  @_ should normally contain
+    # a trailing \n.
+
+    # With no (or only empty) arguments just prints the prefix and
+    # leaves the caller to do more with DEBUG.  The caller should make
+    # sure then to call printdebug with something ending in "\n" to
+    # get the prefix right in subsequent calls.
+
     return unless $debuglevel >= $printdebug_when_debuglevel;
-    print DEBUG $debugprefix;
+    our $printdebug_noprefix;
+    print DEBUG $debugprefix unless $printdebug_noprefix;
     pop @_ while @_ and !length $_[-1];
     return unless @_;
     print DEBUG @_ or die $!;
+    $printdebug_noprefix = $_[-1] !~ m{\n$};
 }
 
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