Re: [PATCH 3/3] templates: detect messages that contain a separator line

> > I do it, too, though not all that often. Once upon a time I had a patch
> > to teach git-commit to auto-convert lines after "---" into a note (which
> > would then be formatted back out via format-patch). But I found for my
> > git.git workflow that just letting the "---" ride along in the commit
> > object was simpler and easier (since I don't care about having pristine
> > commit objects, as their ultimate fate is to be dropped in favor of what
> > is applied upstream).
> 
> I do it too occasionally. I had planned just to use "--no-verify" when I did
> that but maybe we should just drop this patch. We could make it configurable
> as Kristoffer suggested, or, as we have the raw message, we could look for a
> special comment like "# allow ---" but I'm not sure I want to spend much
> more time on this. At least "---" only truncates the message rather than
> applying an unwanted patch.