On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 01:38:18PM +0100, huebbe wrote: > As such, I would like to ask whether it would be possible/sensible > to somehow escape square brackets, or mark the beginning > of the original commit message in the `git format-patch` output? > This would allow `git am` to reproduce the exact commit message by default > without breaking the "[]" convention. I am not sure why "git format-patch -k | git am -k" does not do what you want. That is what those options were added for (and what git-rebase uses internally to make sure commit messages are left unmunged). -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