Re: [BUG] git-rebase fails when a commit message contains a diff

> On Nov 9, 2007, at 2:51 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> > Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
> > 
> > > That's a known design limitation of applymbox/mailinfo.  Any
> > > line that looks like a beginning of a patch in e-mail ("^--- ",
> > > "^---$", "^diff -", and "^Index: ") terminates the commit log.
> > 
> > Ok, so that explains the symptom.  What's the next step?
> > 
> >  * The applymbox/mailinfo pair should continue to split the
> >    commit log message at the first such line.  There is no point
> >    breaking established workflow, and people in communities that
> >    exchange patches via e-mail already know to avoid this issue
> >    by indenting quoted diff snippet in the log message,
> >    e.g. 5be507fc.
> 
> I wasn't aware of this.