If the second line of the commit message isn't empty, git-format-patch needs to add an empty line in order to generate a properly formatted mail. Otherwise git-rebase drops the rest of the commit message. Signed-off-by: Alexandre Julliard <julliard@xxxxxxxxxx> --- git-format-patch.sh | 7 ++++++- 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) dcd0ed6ced98990c92a32416c0acc3ec298f5b91 diff --git a/git-format-patch.sh b/git-format-patch.sh index eb75de4..2bd2639 100755 --- a/git-format-patch.sh +++ b/git-format-patch.sh @@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ titleScript=' process_one () { perl -w -e ' my ($keep_subject, $num, $signoff, $commsg) = @ARGV; -my ($signoff_pattern, $done_header, $done_subject, $signoff_seen, +my ($signoff_pattern, $done_header, $done_subject, $done_separator, $signoff_seen, $last_was_signoff); if ($signoff) { @@ -228,6 +228,11 @@ while (<FH>) { $done_subject = 1; next; } + unless ($done_separator) { + print "\n"; + $done_separator = 1; + next if (/^$/); + } $last_was_signoff = 0; if (/Signed-off-by:/i) { -- 1.2.3.gb348-dirty -- Alexandre Julliard julliard@xxxxxxxxxx - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html