stripping [PATCH] without losing later tags from mailed patches (Re: [ 02/12] Remove COMPAT_IA32 support)

From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 12, 2012, 06:48 UTC
Message-ID: <20120312064855.GB16820@burratino>
In-Reply-To: <20120312063027.GB8971@1wt.eu>

Hi,

(adding git list and Thomas to cc) Willy Tarreau wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 07:49:48PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 01:07:26AM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:

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>>> The subject/first line should include '[IA64]', as in the original
>>> commit.  It looks like this has been automatically stripped.
>>
>> Yeah, munging patches to and from quilt and git will cause that to
>> happen at times, it's quite common :(
>
> Indeed, and I've even changed my patch formats in haproxy to avoid brackets
> due to this issue. The cause is that many patches are sent with a [PATCH]
> prefix and that with Git, either you keep the subject line intact or you
> remove everything that is between brackets. There's the -b option to only
> remove remove tags looking like [PATCH], but my general experience with it
> was not satisfying (I don't remind why).

Maybe the problem was as simple as "git am" not knowing about "-b".

Two relevant patches:

  f7e5ea17 (am: learn passing -b to mailinfo, 2012-01-16)
  ee2d1cb4 (mailinfo: with -b, keep space after [foo], 2012-01-16)

are in "master" and 1.7.10-rc0 and were not part of any earlier release.

Kudos to Thomas for writing them.

Jonathan