"Alan" <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> The header of the patch looks like:
>
> commit 62b266585bb5555d44a764c90d80f9c4bb8188c1
> Author: Joe Example <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed Sep 19 10:03:47 2009 -0600
It shouldn't.
The format "git am" understands is a mbox file and format-patch is the
command to write commits out in that form. It should begin with lines
that look like:
From 610f99ec7d22b5750f12350f67c1341d6be8030f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2009 18:41:09 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Update draft release notes to 1.6.6
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx>
---
.... patch follows here ...
I do not think it is particularly hard to add a new case arm in "am" to
support "git log" output. It is different from a mbox format in that it
* begins each commit with "commit " marker;
* has Author: and Date: header that is different from a mailbox;
* lacks Subject: but makes it part of the message body; and
* indents the message by 4 places.
Nobody has bothered to do so, probably because nobody needed it.
The easiest, safest and quickest for you right now (meaning, before
waiting for anybody to help you by adding a new feature to "am") would be
to see if it is possible for you to get the commits re-exported in an
appropriate format.
I say the "safest" in the above because you _could_ massage what you have
into a format that looks like a mbox with some Perl script, but it risks
mismassaging.
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