On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 08:25:28PM -0700, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> > If we are at it, I had a similar bugreport: If one doesn't use an empty
> > line after the first line in the commit message, a git-format-patch +
> > git-am combo will strip newlines from the commit message:
> 
> That's not a bug but an intended behaviour.  You are triggering "RFC 2822
> line folding" of Subject: header.

Hm, then is it git-am that would have to be fixed up to properly unfold
such a subject? (I mean not stripping newlines.)