Re: format-patch and send-email

> Xavier Maillard <zedek@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> [SNIP SNIP] 
> 
> The "format-patch" output was designed to (minimally) mimic what
> you would see in a UNIX mbox as if you (or whoever would apply
> the e-mailed patches to repository) received it, so that anybody
> can later run "am" on it.  The first "From " is what sometimes
> is called "UNIX-From " line, which separates each piece of
> e-mail in mbox formatted mailbox file.  The second one is used
> to record the author of the patch.
> 
> The commit log message is expected to be:
> 
> 	A single line description of a patch
> 
> 	More detailed explanation of the patch with
>         possibly multi-line or multi-paragraph text.
> 
> and the single line description becomes the subject.