From: Sam Hocevar <sam@zoy.org>
Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2009 17:11:17 GMT
Subject: msysgit corrupting commit messages?
Message-ID: <20090306171117.GD12880@zoy.org>
In-Reply-To: <CYOA8Q1cpfGtE1Pp6_ETXfSJevKv9ADmYIuq6_whU0qskk289fiiUw@cipher.nrlssc.navy.mil>

On Fri, Mar 06, 2009, Brandon Casey wrote:

> 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.