Re: [Bug report] git format-patch + git am doesn't preserve original commit message

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Jun 10, 2021, 15:11 UTC
Message-ID: <YMIrkBiCpUXcUwsW@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAMJzOtzu-fKxtseSPQ8riTC-kfg1CphnXN=EN-rnxVo85dZvFw@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 05:04:58PM +0200, Nikita Bobko wrote:

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> Steps to reproduce:
> ```
> git init
> git commit --allow-empty -m 'root'
> echo foo > foo
> git add .
> git commit -m '[tag] foo'
> git checkout @~
> git format-patch master~..master
> cat 0001-tag-foo.patch | git am
> ```
> Expected: commit message generated by `git am` is `[tag] foo`
> Actual: commit message generated by `git am` is `foo`

This is working as intended. See the "-k" option of git-am and git-mailinfo (and also "-b" for mailinfo).

-Peff