From: Greg KH Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 15:20:04 GMT Subject: Re: stripping [PATCH] without losing later tags from mailed patches (Re: [ 02/12] Remove COMPAT_IA32 support) Message-ID: <20120312152004.GB9380@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: <20120312085820.GA11569@1wt.eu> On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 09:58:20AM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote: > Hi Jonathan, > > On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 01:48:55AM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > > > 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". > > I think you're quite right. > > > 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. > > Ah, thank you very much for this useful info, I'll update my version ! I don't see a -b option to 'git am' in the manpage, am I missing something here? greg k-h