From: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2017 22:30:56 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sequencer: require trailing NL in footers
Message-ID: <20170425223056.GA104886@google.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAGZ79kbhxjO-tFW4_kObTZiauetjsgY1NBSKvo1NV5nKNEy2xA@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 02:56:53PM -0700, Stefan Beller wrote:
> In that case: Is it needed to hint at how this bug occurred in the wild?
> (A different Git implementation, which may be fixed now?)

I might contact the original author, but it's easy enough to imagine
automated 'filter-branch' scripts that could produce this. e.g., this
trivial example:

git filter-branch --msg-filter "perl -pe 'chomp if eof'" HEAD^..