Dear Peff,
I have no problem working around this bug/feature.

I just happen to think that the current *default* behaviour
is not the default behaviour that users have a right to expect:
I believe that users have every right to expect `git format-patch`/`git am`
to preserve commit messages perfectly by default.

Since I see that people are using the current behaviour as a feature,
I tried to come up with an alternative behaviour that would do both:

 1. Respect user assumptions to preserve commit messages by default.

 2. Allow users to prepend stuff when mailing a patch, that will get stripped automatically.

Just because the current behaviour is ... irritating.


Cheers,
Nathanael



On 12/02/2015 04:49 PM, Jeff King wrote:
> 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
> 


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