From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2006 23:16:47 GMT
Subject: Re: git-format-patch little gripe
Message-ID: <20061103231647.GB6970@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <87velwupk6.wl%cworth@cworth.org>

On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 02:35:05PM -0800, Carl Worth wrote:

> I mean, git show is fine for displaying something to just read it, but
> if the results are to be fed back into git at some point, then
> git-show is pretty useless, (throws away commit message, author,
> timestamp, etc.).

Try
  git-show --pretty=email
or even
  git-show --pretty=email --stat -p