Chris Packham <judge.packham@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > So I was just sent a patch generated with 'git format-patch' that 'git > am' fails to apply correctly. It applies but part of the commit > message is lost. > > The problem is that the commit message has lines like > > --- Foo happened > did some things to handle Foo > --- Bar happened > Still processing update from Foo which led to a crash > > git mailinfo seems to discard everything after the first '--- Blah'. Yes, this is well known. So is a line that begins with "diff --git" makes mailinfo to guess that it is the end of the log message. > ... I know git > mailinfo shouldn't handle garbage input but I guess the problem I have > is that the patch was generated by git format-patch ... Whatever message you write format-patch emits without escaping, so "patch was generated by format-patch" does not guarantee anything, unfortunately. A related similar issue is that a line that begins with "From " may be corrupted into a line that begins with ">From " by the time the message hits your mailbox. These are unfortunately something you have to know and long-time users learned to avoid doing so unconsciously ;-). -- 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