Re: What's in git.git (Aug 2009, #01; Wed, 05)
Quoting Brandon Casey <brandon.casey.ctr@nrlssc.navy.mil>
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> Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> The 1.6.4 release seems to have been quite solid, and there is no
>> brown-paper-bag bugfixes on 'maint' yet ;-).
>
> Found one.
>
> I didn't realize the whole git-am discussion did _not_ result in a
> fix being applied. But git-am will currently refuse to apply any
> patch from email that does not have "From " or "From: " in the first
> three lines of the email. For those of us whose mail servers prepend
> many lines of the form:
>
> Received: from XXX ([XXX]) by XXX with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.2825);
> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 07:24:06 -0500
According to an already hashed out discussion, that isn't a mbox format that has been supported, so it isn't even a bug. For details, see e.g.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/123338/focus=123355
And Nicolas Sebrecht has been working with Junio to implement an enhancement to add support for the "individual piece of email" format.
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