From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 19:07:23 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [git-am] Handle "git show" output correctly
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In-Reply-To: <1347473108.12986.6.camel@eddie.install.bos.redhat.com>

Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> writes:

> Let me put it a different way - if you won't accept git-am handling "git
> show" output because "git show" has output that wasn't designed to be
> parsed ever, would you be opposed to a patch that switches the "git
> show" output to be something usable?

The output from the command is optimized for humans, but you could
invoke "git show --pretty=email" if you want to, so I do not think
you need any patch to do that.