The default StGit export template puts author information in a From: line located between the subject and the body of the commit message. We can handle these files by prepending 'Subject: ' to the first line of the file and skipping the whitespace following it. Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@xxxxxxxxx> --- builtin-mailinfo.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/builtin-mailinfo.c b/builtin-mailinfo.c index 92637ac..67317e2 100644 --- a/builtin-mailinfo.c +++ b/builtin-mailinfo.c @@ -920,6 +920,24 @@ static int mailinfo(FILE *in, FILE *out, int ks, const char *encoding, } while (isspace(peek)); ungetc(peek, in); + /* The default StGit export template has the subject as first line + (without 'Subject:') followed by an empty line, followed by + the author info (with 'From:'), followed by an empty line, + followed by the body. If the first line is not a mail header + and we add 'Subject:' in front of it, skipping the subsequent + empty line(s), we can thus parse StGit patches. + */ + if (read_one_header_line(&line, fin)) + check_header(&line, p_hdr_data, 1); + else { + strbuf_insert(&line, 0, "Subject: ", 9); + check_header(&line, p_hdr_data, 1); + do { + peek = fgetc(in); + } while (isspace(peek)); + ungetc(peek, in); + } + /* process the email header */ while (read_one_header_line(&line, fin)) check_header(&line, p_hdr_data, 1); -- 1.6.3.1.212.g6c0d3.dirty -- To unsubscribe from this list: 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