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Re: [GIT PULL] sh updates for 2.6.25

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Apr 16, 2008, 03:25 UTC
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Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org> writes:
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> On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 11:43:24AM -0700, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I seem to remember (but I might be mistaken) that this issue was
>> corrected by some patch on git mailing list already...
>
> If we are at it, I had a similar bugreport: If one doesn't use an empty
> line after the first line in the commit message, a git-format-patch +
> git-am combo will strip newlines from the commit message:

That's not a bug but an intended behaviour. You are triggering "RFC 2822 line folding" of Subject: header.

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Message 12 of 17 in “Re: [GIT PULL] sh updates for 2.6.25”
  1. Linus TorvaldsApr 15, 2008
  2. Linus TorvaldsApr 15, 2008
  3. Paul MundtApr 15, 2008
  4. Linus TorvaldsApr 15, 2008
  5. Alex RiesenApr 16, 2008
  6. Junio C HamanoApr 16, 2008
  7. Linus TorvaldsApr 16, 2008
  8. Junio C HamanoApr 15, 2008
  9. Jakub NarebskiApr 15, 2008
  10. Miklos VajnaApr 16, 2008
  11. format-patch: Make sure the subject is always a one-linerMiklos Vajna, Apr 16, 2008
  12. Junio C HamanoApr 16, 2008
  13. Miklos VajnaApr 16, 2008
  14. Re* [GIT PULL] sh updates for 2.6.25Junio C Hamano, Apr 16, 2008
  15. Jakub NarebskiApr 16, 2008
  16. Miklos VajnaApr 17, 2008
  17. David WoodhouseApr 27, 2008

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