From: Junio C Hamano Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2007 01:39:48 GMT Subject: Re: [BUG] git-rebase fails when a commit message contains a diff Message-ID: <7vlk98xkm3.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20071109011214.GA5903@diku.dk> That's a known design limitation of applymbox/mailinfo. Any line that looks like a beginning of a patch in e-mail ("^--- ", "^---$", "^diff -", and "^Index: ") terminates the commit log.