From: Nanako Shiraishi Date: Fri, 07 Aug 2009 03:33:46 GMT Subject: Re: What's in git.git (Aug 2009, #01; Wed, 05) Message-ID: <20090807123346.6117@nanako3.lavabit.com> In-Reply-To: Quoting Brandon Casey > 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. -- Nanako Shiraishi http://ivory.ap.teacup.com/nanako3/