From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 21:18:53 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-am: Handle "git show" output correctly
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In-Reply-To: <1347482918.21933.5.camel@eddie.install.bos.redhat.com>

Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> writes:

> Well, if that happens, maybe we could regexp match on
> "[[:alnum:]_-]+: /someexprthatlookslikeanemailaddress/" ?

I doubt that would be even reliably done.

> But we could
> also just wait to cross that bridge until we get to it?

Not really.  If we start encouraging people to use "git show" output
as a kosher input to "am", we would have to support such use
forever, and we end up painting ourselves in a corner we cannot get
out of easily.