From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 18:47:36 GMT
Subject: Re: A shortcoming of the git repo format
Message-ID: <426FDE48.1050700@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <20050427183239.GE19011@redhat.com>

Dave Jones wrote:
> 
> That actually broke one of my first git scripts when one of the
> changelog texts started a line with 'tree '.  I hacked around it
> by making my script only grep in the 'head -n4' lines, but this
> seems somewhat fragile having to make assumptions that the field
> I want to see is in the first 4 lines.
> 

You have the delimiter for that; there is an empty line between the 
header and the free-form body, similar as for RFC822.

	-hpa