From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: huebbe <nathanael.huebbe@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>,
stefan.naewe@atlas-elektronik.com, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Bug: Incorrect stripping of the [PATCH] prefix in git-am
Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2015 10:49:48 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151202154948.GA9525@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <565EE63A.3040006@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 01:38:18PM +0100, huebbe wrote:
> As such, I would like to ask whether it would be possible/sensible
> to somehow escape square brackets, or mark the beginning
> of the original commit message in the `git format-patch` output?
> This would allow `git am` to reproduce the exact commit message by default
> without breaking the "[]" convention.
I am not sure why "git format-patch -k | git am -k" does not do what you
want. That is what those options were added for (and what git-rebase
uses internally to make sure commit messages are left unmunged).
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-12-02 15:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-11-25 15:29 Bug: Incorrect stripping of the [PATCH] prefix in git-am huebbe
2015-11-25 15:44 ` stefan.naewe
2015-11-25 15:59 ` huebbe
2015-12-02 0:58 ` Jeff King
2015-12-02 1:10 ` Stefan Beller
2015-12-02 2:27 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-12-02 2:24 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-12-02 12:38 ` huebbe
2015-12-02 15:49 ` Jeff King [this message]
2015-12-03 10:32 ` huebbe
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