Re: Add option in git-am to ignore leading text?

From: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s.dev@gmx.fr>
Date: Jul 28, 2009, 18:15 UTC
Message-ID: <20090728181524.GC16168@vidovic>
In-Reply-To: <200907281938.24960.elendil@planet.nl>

The 28/07/09, Frans Pop wrote:

> On Tuesday 28 July 2009, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote:
> 
> If my feature request is implemented I'll of course make sure to omit the
> '---' line if needed.

This is already done.

> Here are some other examples (some of which would equally need to drop or 
> change a separator line).
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/6/25/62

Uses "From:", "Date:", and "Subject:".

> http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/6/22/114

Uses "From:" and "Subject:".

> http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/6/30/109

Uses "Subject:" only.

I guess there are as results as contributors but it could be possible to add some rules to the format. This could ending up with an unuseable feature in practice, though. I don't know.

> http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/6/30/224

Broken link ?

> As Mark Brown has already said, that won't solve the issue for an 
> introduction or comments added by the sender of the mail.

True.

> Also, people use all kinds of quoting schemes, not just leading ">".

And people don't use the same rules with the "inline headers" too. :-)

> And I've also seen plenty of cases where quoted lines _were_ a desired 
> part of a commit log.

Yes, that's why it's an _option_.

-- 
Nicolas Sebrecht