From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 03:25:28 GMT
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] sh updates for 2.6.25
Message-ID: <7vd4oqwkev.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080416003725.GF8387@genesis.frugalware.org>

Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org> writes:

> 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.