Russ Allbery wrote: > I process a lot of git format-patch patches as attachments, Aside: it seems that many format-patch users are not using it to generate an mbox with a template message, as originally intended; instead, they just write a cover letter and attach the generated patches to it. Are we not advertising the "am --scissors" facility[1] well enough? Maybe format-patch could provide another mode to produce patches that do not include unnecessary headers (in particular, leaving out the difficult "From " line and using UTF-8 instead of quoted-printable for the "From: " line). All that is irrelevant to the "git am" feature suggestion, of course. Thanks for a reminder, Jonathan [1] > lorem ipsum etc etc ... reply as usual ... ... How about this patch? -- 8< -- From: Patch Author <au.thor@xxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: foo: do "bar" better patch description --- ... patch ... -- 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