gitk patch display corner-case bug

From: Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>
Date: Feb 18, 2006, 23:36 UTC
Message-ID: <20060218233618.GA29025@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk>

In a recently updated stgit tree,

  $ git-diff 51cb39db\^ 51cb39db
  diff --git a/templates/covermail.tmpl b/templates/covermail.tmpl
  index 9789c9c..44cd19e 100644
  --- a/templates/covermail.tmpl
  +++ b/templates/covermail.tmpl
  @@ -4,5 +4,5 @@ Date: %(date)s
   %(endofheaders)s
   The following series implements...
   
  ---
  +-- 
   Signature

That is, a trailing whitespace was added after the two dashes. However, gitk displays this as

  index 9789c9c..44cd19e 100644
  @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ From: %(maintainer)s
   Subject: [PATCH%(version)s%(number)s] Series short description
   Date: %(date)s
   %(endofheaders)s
   The following series implements...
   
  +-- 
   Signature

Totally correct except that it omitted the line consisting of only three dashes.

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Karl Hasselström, kha@treskal.com
      www.treskal.com/kalle