On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 04:59:35PM +0100, huebbe wrote: > Yes, it looks like the `--keep-non-patch` option works around this. > > However, shouldn't that be the default behaviour? > I mean, what is the point in stripping stuff that is not proven to be inserted by `git` itself? > That's not what I expect a tool to do which I trust. The "[]" convention is a microformat used by Linux kernel folks. So it's not "whoops, we are stripping stuff not added by git". It is respecting a microformat used by the tool's authors. That being said, if we were choosing a default from scratch today, it might go the other way. But we aren't, and we have to deal with the burden of breaking existing scripts by flipping it. -Peff -- 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