On Mon, 2024-11-04 at 18:54 -0500, Jeff King wrote: > 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. But as you've said below, here too, the receiving side most likely doesn’t know that and then a wrong commit message would be applied (with no unescaping being performed or it would simply break again when the magic From is used). Cheers, Chris.
