Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > parent eac2d83247ea0a265d923518c26873bb12c33778 (v1.7.9-rc0) > commit b629bde461aeb178b257ab7e0f6c180f69f98cb0 > Author: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Mon Jan 9 12:30:07 2012 +0100 > > gitignore: warn about pointless syntax [...] > -- > # Created with git-export-patch Are you the author of this tool? The format is bogus in so far as it causes git-am to insert the above lines into the git commit message, as in: $ git am -3 < gitignore-patch.mbox Applying: gitignore: warn about pointless syntax $ git show commit 59bea4d9a1de3b3b9c0139de4298ffd9d9431457 Author: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon Jan 9 12:34:12 2012 +0100 gitignore: warn about pointless syntax parent eac2d83247ea0a265d923518c26873bb12c33778 (v1.7.9-rc0) commit b629bde461aeb178b257ab7e0f6c180f69f98cb0 Author: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon Jan 9 12:30:07 2012 +0100 gitignore: warn about pointless syntax [...] So using this tool over format-patch is just a pointless cause of manual fixup work. -- Thomas Rast trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch -- 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