From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Wed, 02 Dec 2015 15:49:48 GMT
Subject: Re: Bug: Incorrect stripping of the [PATCH] prefix in git-am
Message-ID: <20151202154948.GA9525@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <565EE63A.3040006@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>

On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 01:38:18PM +0100, huebbe wrote:

> 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