git/list[1] front-page[2] threads[3] people[4] search[5] about
 

Re: git am should recognize >From

From
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date
Sep 19, 2010, 14:24 UTC
Message-ID
<AANLkTin_5qzDkMU_1stYZcJpfW-W7K0kxy=0K2dA7SwO@mail.gmail.com>

(+cc: some "git am" people. Unfortunately I will probably be hard to reach for another week or so.)

Russ Allbery wrote:
> I process a lot of git format-patch patches as attachments, but it's
> common for mailers to mangle the leading "From " line by adding a >.
> This causes git am to not recognize the patch

Ignoring a leading ">" sounds sane to me at first glance; thanks. (The file to patch is git-am.sh, hint hint. ;-))

Next: Jonathan Nieder
Message 1 of 10 in “Re: git am should recognize >From”
  1. Jonathan NiederSep 19, 2010
  2. Jonathan NiederSep 19, 2010
  3. Russ AllberySep 19, 2010
  4. Make format-patch produce UTF-8 `From:' header (was Re: git am should recognize >From)Štěpán Němec, Sep 19, 2010
  5. Russ AllberySep 19, 2010
  6. use base64 instead of quoted-printable in format-patch headers (was Re: Make format-patch produce UTF-8 `From:' header)Štěpán Němec, Sep 20, 2010
  7. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonSep 20, 2010
  8. Brandon CaseySep 20, 2010
  9. Štěpán NěmecSep 20, 2010
  10. Erik Faye-LundSep 19, 2010

Read the whole thread, see it on lore, or plain text.

$ cat FOOTERMessages come from the public archive at lore.kernel.org/git, fetched every hour. The front page is chosen and written each morning by an AI editor and can be wrong; the threads themselves are the record. About and API. For agents: an MCP server at https://gitlist.dev/mcp, and any thread, story or person page as Markdown by adding .md to its URL (or sending Accept: text/markdown). Details in /llms.txt.