From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 10:52:59 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: Make the maximum patch name length configurable
X-Git-Tag: v0.14~110
X-Git-Url: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~mdw/git/stgit/commitdiff_plain/1b814c72ae60604d2073d52b5c89ccbd4cee96e5?ds=sidebyside

Make the maximum patch name length configurable

The config variable is stgit.namelenth

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@gmail.com>
---

diff --git a/examples/gitconfig b/examples/gitconfig
index f1c653e..f181f82 100644
--- a/examples/gitconfig
+++ b/examples/gitconfig
@@ -94,6 +94,9 @@
 	# current one by the 'series --short' command
 	#shortnr = 5
 
+	# The maximum length of an automatically generated patch name
+	#namelenth = 30
+
 [mail "alias"]
 	# E-mail aliases used with the 'mail' command
 	git = git@vger.kernel.org
diff --git a/stgit/utils.py b/stgit/utils.py
index 38dd474..02e98e9 100644
--- a/stgit/utils.py
+++ b/stgit/utils.py
@@ -190,13 +190,16 @@ def call_editor(filename):
 
 def patch_name_from_msg(msg):
     """Return a string to be used as a patch name. This is generated
-    from the top line of the string passed as argument, and is at most
-    30 characters long."""
+    from the top line of the string passed as argument."""
     if not msg:
         return None
 
+    name_len = config.get('stgit.namelength')
+    if not name_len:
+        name_len = 30
+
     subject_line = msg.split('\n', 1)[0].lstrip().lower()
-    return re.sub('[\W]+', '-', subject_line).strip('-')[:30]
+    return re.sub('[\W]+', '-', subject_line).strip('-')[:name_len]
 
 def make_patch_name(msg, unacceptable, default_name = 'patch'):
     """Return a patch name generated from the given commit message,