From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] format-patch: escape "From " lines recognized by mailsplit
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2016 20:49:04 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160725204904.GA1424@starla> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqzip562s3.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Eric Wong <e@80x24.org> writes:
>
> >> Also, doesn't it break "git rebase" (non-interactive), or anything
> >> that internally runs format-patch to individual files and then runs
> >> am on each of them, anything that knows that each output file from
> >> format-patch corresponds to a single change and there is no need to
> >> split, badly if we do this unconditionally?
> >
> > Yes, rebase should probably unescape is_from_line matches.
>
> This shouldn't matter for "git rebase", as it only reads from the
> mbox "From <commit object name> <datestamp>" line to learn the
> original commit and extract the log message directly from there.
OK.
> But a third-party script that wants to read format-patch output
> would be forced to upgrade, which is a pain if we make this change
> unconditionally.
I suppose unconditionally having mailsplit unescape
">From ... $DATE" lines might be acceptable?
It'll still propagate these mistakes to older versions of git,
but those installations will eventually become fewer.
> >> IOW, shouldn't this be an optional feature to format-patch that
> >> is triggered by passing a new command line option that currently
> >> nobody is passing?
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-07-25 20:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-22 22:47 [PATCH] format-patch: escape "From " lines recognized by mailsplit Eric Wong
2016-07-23 8:59 ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-07-24 3:14 ` Eric Wong
2016-07-24 3:15 ` [PATCH 1/2] mailinfo: extract is_from_line from mailsplit Eric Wong
2016-07-24 7:37 ` Andreas Schwab
2016-07-24 8:05 ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-07-24 8:13 ` Andreas Schwab
2016-07-25 18:03 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-07-24 3:15 ` [PATCH 2/2] format-patch: escape "From " lines recognized by mailsplit Eric Wong
2016-07-24 7:37 ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-07-24 15:30 ` Jeff King
2016-07-24 7:11 ` [PATCH] " Junio C Hamano
2016-07-24 10:58 ` Eric Wong
2016-07-24 15:51 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-07-25 8:43 ` Eric Wong
2016-07-25 17:33 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-07-25 20:49 ` Eric Wong [this message]
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
List information: http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20160725204904.GA1424@starla \
--to=e@80x24.org \
--cc=git@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=gitster@pobox.com \
--cc=sunshine@sunshineco.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox
https://80x24.org/mirrors/git.git
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).