Hi, On Sat, 9 Dec 2006, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > This doesn't convey much information in the shortlog context. > And the perl version did strip it as well. >From the current builtin-shortlog.c:128ff: if (!strncmp(oneline, "[PATCH", 6)) { char *eob = strchr(oneline, ']'); if (eob) { while (isspace(eob[1]) && eob[1] != '\n') eob++; if (eob - oneline < onelinelen) { onelinelen -= eob - oneline; oneline = eob; } } } It tries not only to strip "[PATCH]", but also "[PATCH 0/n]" and basically every prefix beginning with "[PATCH" and ending in "]". I do not remember if I really tested that code, but it should work. Ciao, Dscho - 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