Re: git bug: rebase fatal failure

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: May 16, 2008, 11:01 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0805161148010.30431@racer>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0805161139530.30431@racer>

Hi,

On Fri, 16 May 2008, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> It is a .info file, so I suspect strange things going on with 
> non-printable ASCII characters.

And indeed, this is the culprit:

-- snip -- BFD Index *********

^@^H[index^@^H]
* Menu:

-- snap --

Note the NUL characters?

Now, the thing is: git format-patch still outputs it correctly. But git-rebase pipes the output to git-am, which in turn calls git-mailsplit, which suppresses that line.

Will keep you posted, Dscho