From: Eric Sunshine Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2016 18:52:03 GMT Subject: Re: Forgotten declaration of function path_name() in revision.h? Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20160316184853.GA32615@sigill.intra.peff.net> On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 2:48 PM, Jeff King wrote: > It makes things easier on the maintainer if you format your patch such > that "git am" can apply it directly. Use scissors like: > > -- >8 -- > > to separate the patch from anything that should not go into the commit > message (rather than "=====..." as you have here). > > Drop the "From " line which says nothing (it is an mbox separator, but > we are already inside a message). > > The rest of the headers do not hurt, but are generally redundant with > what is in your email header (though in this case, the Subject is > different, so you would want to retain that). Also, Signed-off-by: is missing.