Johannes Schindelin wrote:
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> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> 
>> const char *find_commit_subject_end(const char *commit_msg)
>> {
>> 	const char *dot, *paragraph_end;
>> 		paragraph_end = strstr(commit_msg, "\n\n");
>> 	dot = strchr(commit_msg, '.');
>> 		return min_non_null(dot, paragraph_end); }
>>
>> would probably get it right very nearly always.
> 
> Counterexample (not even mentioning the missing handling of NULL):
> 

Well, pseudo code doesn't have to handle NULL's, as it never gets bad
pseudo-input ;-)

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> http://brick.kernel.dk/git/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=eb66d86e295cd5a8f13221589806e15db62a...
> 
> And no, the responsible developer showed a strong unwillingness to adapt 
> to better tools and workflows.
> 

Hmm, how about any interpunctuation char or newline followed by newline or
the first dot?

It would cover this case and not be overly hard to code.

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