> Generating patch is only part of the story, I can follow this view in principle. > it seems the patch is not sent properly I got an other impression. > and tags which should be in SMTP header end up in the message body. I agree that extra message fields were presented by the git software for a reason. You might have got other opinions about the original reason (than me). > I think there would not be such issues if you have used git > format-patch + git send-email. I have got also doubts about your corresponding expectations when you would find the proposed commit message itself acceptable (besides the small source code changes). > I normally do amend things like this while applying, That is interesting. > I will do that this time as well. Such an action can also be nice. > It's already too much time wasted for such a dubious patch. A bit of time is needed to resolve a temporary disagreement. Regards, Markus