Hi!
If there are colons in the beginning of a patch subject line `git-am'
will drop them.
Consider the following patch:
$ cat 0001-four-colons-prepended.patch
From e8213a2d10a61c9dc75521d88d656b8d5330e6bb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Max Filenko <contact@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2019 12:21:21 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] :::: four colons prepended
---
file.txt | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/file.txt b/file.txt
index 4dd1ef7..b5da95d 100644
--- a/file.txt
+++ b/file.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-This is a file.
+This is a plain text file.
--
2.17.1
There will be no colons in the beginning of a commit message if I apply
this patch:
$ git am 0001-four-colons-prepended.patch
Applying: four colons prepended
The four colons already gone in the log message above. There are neither
no colons in the commit subject line:
$ git show
commit 6341a6a2872f850ecb376c268b1b3bae54a6a74f (HEAD -> master)
Author: Max Filenko <contact@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue Feb 12 12:21:21 2019 +0100
four colons prepended
diff --git a/file.txt b/file.txt
index 4dd1ef7..b5da95d 100644
--- a/file.txt
+++ b/file.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-This is a file.
+This is a plain text file.
I was able to reproduce this with git 2.17.1 on Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS as
well as with git 2.17.2 (Apple Git-113) on macOS 10.14.3.
I was able to trace this down to <builtin/am.c>. It seems like there are
no colons already in the `state->msg' which to my understanding is being
filled by `read_commit_msg()' function. I would really appreciate a hand
on debugging it further.
I'm re-submitting this bug report because the original one [1] wasn't
really noticed. Hopefully, it's just because I've missed the proper
prefix in my email's subject line :)
[1]:
http://public-inbox.org/git/m2lg2lxmmm.fsf@bouncer.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me/
--
Best,
Max
