Re: [PATCH] git-am: Handle "git show" output correctly

> 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.