From: Jan Krüger <jk@jk.gs>
Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2010 12:59:44 GMT
Subject: Re: Problem in Patches with commit-messages containing non-ascii
Message-ID: <20101203135944.31d7cfbf@jk.gs>
In-Reply-To: <4CF8D243.50108@gmx.com>

--- Martin Krüger <martin.krueger@gmx.com> wrote:

> Consider this log-Message:
> commit ea2cd63dfe9b3ac3581b6cff8b13a52e69066242
> Author: martin <martin@chad.upnx.de>
> Date:   Fri Nov 19 18:58:58 2010 +0100
> 
>     Methoden überall angepasst.
>     Ausser Aussnahmen
> 

FWIW, support for multi-line summaries is very limited. Several
tools assume that the log message has this format:

<Summary in one line>
<Blank line>
<Details>

So one could argue that your patch fixes something that isn't really
supported anyway.

> [...]
> 
> Applyin leads to a correct commit-Messsage:
> 
> commit 62d06e3415ec0726dbd58c11ed93771502b77805
> Author: martin <martin@chad.upnx.de>
> Date:   Fri Nov 19 18:58:58 2010 +0100
> 
>     Methoden überall angepasst.Ausser Aussnahmen

How is that correct? It's different from the original commit message.

-Jan