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 (file)
--- 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 (file)
--- 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,