On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 5:18 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Peter Jones <pjones@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> Well, if that happens, maybe we could regexp match on >> "[[:alnum:]_-]+: /someexprthatlookslikeanemailaddress/" ? > > I doubt that would be even reliably done. > >> But we could >> also just wait to cross that bridge until we get to it? > > Not really. If we start encouraging people to use "git show" output > as a kosher input to "am", we would have to support such use > forever, and we end up painting ourselves in a corner we cannot get > out of easily. If git am emitted a warning when accepting "git show" output, it seems like it would support Peter's use-case without encouraging bad behavior? -- -Dan -- 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