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Re: Bug: Incorrect stripping of the [PATCH] prefix in git-am

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Dec 2, 2015, 15:49 UTC
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<20151202154948.GA9525@sigill.intra.peff.net>
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<565EE63A.3040006@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 01:38:18PM +0100, huebbe wrote:
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> As such, I would like to ask whether it would be possible/sensible
> to somehow escape square brackets, or mark the beginning
> of the original commit message in the `git format-patch` output?
> This would allow `git am` to reproduce the exact commit message by default
> without breaking the "[]" convention.

I am not sure why "git format-patch -k | git am -k" does not do what you want. That is what those options were added for (and what git-rebase uses internally to make sure commit messages are left unmunged).

-Peff
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