From: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org>
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 13:59:30 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] have merge put FETCH_HEAD data in commit message
Message-ID: <20070323135930.GB24788@fieldses.org>
In-Reply-To: <eu0m6t$hln$1@sea.gmane.org>

On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 02:57:38PM +0100, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> > +The commit message is formed by the title taken from the
> > +"Subject: ", a blank line and the body of the message up to
> > +where the patch begins.  Excess whitespaces at the end of the
> > +lines are automatically stripped.
> 
> Does this mean that git-am cannot make a log message that doesn't
> follow git formatting commit message guidelines, namely short one-line
> description, then longer description and signoff?

The input to git-am is email, not log messages.

--b.