Re: Make "git am" properly unescape lines matching ">>*From "

From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Jun 8, 2010, 20:54 UTC
Message-ID: <4C0EAE08.60904@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <87d3w1jlp0.fsf@yoom.home.cworth.org>

On 06/08/2010 01:47 PM, Carl Worth wrote:

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> On Tue, 08 Jun 2010 12:57:23 -0700, Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org> wrote:
>> I'm adding support to notmuch[1] to more easily pipe a thread full of
>> But I noticed that "git am" wasn't removing any of these added '>'
>> characters, so I was getting corrupted commit messages.
> 
> I've also noticed that format-patch is generating bogus mbox files
> without any escaping. (The only way it gets away with this is that
> mailsplit only treats "From " lines as separators if they end with
> something that looks quite a bit like the output of asctime.)
>

At the same time, it would be a fairly major lose to not be able to generate individual messages easily. I have personally considered the fact that git format-patch produces something-vaguely-like mboxes rather than individual plain RFC 2822 messages to be a bug; fixable by "tail" but annoying.

	-hpa