Re: [PATCH] have merge put FETCH_HEAD data in commit message

From: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@dev.mellanox.co.il>
Date: Mar 22, 2007, 06:28 UTC
Message-ID: <20070322062805.GD6303@mellanox.co.il>
In-Reply-To: <7vd531yicx.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

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> Quoting Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>:
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] have merge put FETCH_HEAD data in commit message
> 
> "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@dev.mellanox.co.il> writes:
> 
> >> Quoting Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>:
> >> Subject: Re: [PATCH] have merge put FETCH_HEAD data in commit message
> >> 
> >> Would "Hi!" and "Would the following be appropriate?" be part of
> >> the final commit log message?
> >
> > Sigh. I wish there was a way to tell git-am "ignore text *before* this line"
> > just like --- means ignore text after this line.
> 
> Well, I'd sigh back.  I wish people imitated good examples, such as:
> 
> Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0703220240590.4045@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

I know that's how git-am wants the input to look. But I claim that's not how most people *think* or *correspond*.

> which is not too hard to follow.

BTW, is there some way to figure it out besides looking at the code or grepping git archives?

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