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msysgit corrupting commit messages?

From
Sam Hocevar <sam@zoy.org>
Date
Mar 6, 2009, 17:11 UTC
Message-ID
<20090306171117.GD12880@zoy.org>
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On Fri, Mar 06, 2009, Brandon Casey wrote:
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> I get the impression that you do not intend for the comments above to be
> part of the commit message.  If that is true, then they should be placed
> further down after the '---' and before the diff-stat, or in some other
> way partitioned from the commit message (maybe using --->8--- notation).
> Otherwise they will _become_ part of the commit message if Junio applies
> this patch as-is.
   Okay. I'm definitely having a problem with git on MSYS. Is anyone
else seeing it butcher commits it exports? They appear fine in git log
or git log -p, but not in git format-patch. I've never had the problem
on a Linux system.
-- 
Sam.
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  1. git-p4: remove unnecessary semicolons at end of linesSam Hocevar, Mar 6, 2009
  2. Brandon CaseyMar 6, 2009
  3. msysgit corrupting commit messages?Sam Hocevar, Mar 6, 2009
  4. Johannes SchindelinMar 7, 2009
  5. git-p4: remove unnecessary semicolons at end of lines.Sam Hocevar, Mar 7, 2009

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