On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 09:46:43AM -0800, Jakub Narebski wrote: > > I also think "git commit" would not be the right time for such a > > feature. The problem is not that you have this text in your commit > > message. The problem is that the "format-patch | am" transport is lossy. > > You would do better to have format-patch say "Ah, this is going to > > create a bogus email address" and somehow quote it appropriately. > > Doesn't mbox format have some way of escaping "From:" (or is it "From ")? > If I remember correctly it uses ">From " or something for that. > git-format-patch could do this also (perhaps only with --rebasing > option). It's for "From " lines, which are the mbox separator. This would be somewhat different. It has nothing at all to do with the mail format itself, but rather is about git treating the body of the message specially. I don't think a quoting mechanism currently exists to handle this. -Peff -- 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