[PATCH] Limit line length of convert log messages

[Frank Kingswood]

Patrick Mézard wrote:

>> diff -r 0231f763ebc8 -r e1fd124dd347 hgext/convert/convcmd.py
>> --- a/hgext/convert/convcmd.py	Wed Mar 26 10:12:10 2008 -0700
>> +++ b/hgext/convert/convcmd.py	Wed Mar 26 21:13:07 2008 +0000
>> @@ -290,7 +290,7 @@ class converter(object):
>>                  # convert log message to local encoding without using
>>                  # tolocal() because util._encoding conver() use it as
>>                  # 'utf-8'
>> -                self.ui.status("%d %s\n" % (num, recode(desc)))
>> +                self.ui.status(util.ellipsis("%d %s\n" % (num, recode(desc)),80))
> 
> I am not really motivated by this change, but at least you want the '\n' outside the util.ellipsis() call.

I agree on the \n, my current code has something like
self.ui.status(util.ellipsis("%d %s" % (num, recode(desc)),80)+"\n")

Clearly the messages are there just to show that something is happening, 
so accuracy isn't needed here. I'm using a function that was intended to 
help generate shortened output just like this. Some messages I've seen 
are long enough to cover half a screenful, not very useful.

Frank