On Mon, Nov 04, 2024 at 08:24:14PM +0100, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > 2. The format-patch for that looks already suspicious: > - The From line is not escaped (as some variants of mbox would do, > some properly some, causing corruption by the escaping with > > itself). As you note, the mbox format is not well defined. :) The variant with ">"-quoting of "From" lines is often called "mboxrd", and you can get it with the "--format=mboxrd" option. > - What the format may think of as a separator after the commit > message (namely the ---) cannot be used as that either, as a --- > in the commit message is again not escaped. For this, though, I don't think there is any solution. The receiving side of "git am" does not know of any unquoting mechanism. So even if you wanted to quote it, you could not get a lossless transmission of the commit message. This does occasionally cause confusion. Especially if you include an unindented diff in your commit message, which similarly (and intentionally) triggers the "---" detection. But I think it's one of those things that just doesn't come up often enough for anybody to have cared about trying to address. -Peff
