--- a/hgext/patchbomb.py	Sun Mar 04 14:35:11 2007 -0300
+++ b/hgext/patchbomb.py	Mon Mar 05 19:54:21 2007 +0100
@@ -154,12 +154,13 @@
         else:
             body += '\n'.join(patch)
             msg = email.MIMEText.MIMEText(body)
+
+        subj = desc[0].strip().rstrip('. ')
         if total == 1:
-            subj = '[PATCH] ' + desc[0].strip()
+            subj = '[PATCH] ' + (opts['subject'] or subj)
         else:
             tlen = len(str(total))
-            subj = '[PATCH %0*d of %d] %s' % (tlen, idx, total, desc[0].strip())
-        if subj.endswith('.'): subj = subj[:-1]
+            subj = '[PATCH %0*d of %d] %s' % (tlen, idx, total, subj)
         msg['Subject'] = subj
         msg['X-Mercurial-Node'] = node
         return msg
@@ -298,7 +299,7 @@
       ('', 'plain', None, 'omit hg patch header'),
       ('n', 'test', None, 'print messages that would be sent'),
       ('m', 'mbox', '', 'write messages to mbox file instead of sending them'),
-      ('s', 'subject', '', 'subject of introductory message'),
+      ('s', 'subject', '', 'subject of first message (intro or single patch)'),
       ('t', 'to', [], 'email addresses of recipients')],
      "hg email [OPTION]... [REV]...")
     }

--- a/mercurial/commands.py	Sun Mar 04 14:35:11 2007 -0300
+++ b/mercurial/commands.py	Mon Mar 05 19:54:21 2007 +0100
@@ -274,9 +274,8 @@
         if ui.quiet:
             ui.write("%s\n" % t)
         else:
-            t = util.localsub(t, 30)
-            t += " " * (30 - util.locallen(t))
-            ui.write("%s %s:%s\n" % (t, -r, hexfunc(n)))
+            spaces = " " * (30 - util.locallen(t))
+            ui.write("%s%s %s:%s\n" % (t, spaces, -r, hexfunc(n)))
 
 def bundle(ui, repo, fname, dest=None, **opts):
     """create a changegroup file
@@ -2469,9 +2468,8 @@
         if ui.quiet:
             ui.write("%s\n" % t)
         else:
-            t = util.localsub(t, 30)
-            t += " " * (30 - util.locallen(t))
-            ui.write("%s %s\n" % (t, r))
+            spaces = " " * (30 - util.locallen(t))
+            ui.write("%s%s %s\n" % (t, spaces, r))
 
 def tip(ui, repo, **opts):
     """show the tip revision

--- a/tests/test-tags	Sun Mar 04 14:35:11 2007 -0300
+++ b/tests/test-tags	Mon Mar 05 19:54:21 2007 +0100
@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@
 hg co
 hg identify
 T=`hg tip --debug | head -n 1 | cut -d : -f 3`
+hg tag -l "This is a local tag with a really long name!"
+hg tags
+rm .hg/localtags
 echo "$T first" > .hgtags
 cat .hgtags
 hg add .hgtags

--- a/tests/test-tags.out	Sun Mar 04 14:35:11 2007 -0300
+++ b/tests/test-tags.out	Mon Mar 05 19:54:21 2007 +0100
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 unknown
 0 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
 0acdaf898367 tip
+tip                                0:0acdaf898367
+This is a local tag with a really long name!     0:0acdaf898367
 0acdaf8983679e0aac16e811534eb49d7ee1f2b4 first
 tip                                1:8a3ca90d111d
 first                              0:0acdaf898367