Re: msysgit corrupting commit messages?

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Mar 7, 2009, 02:48 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0903070347220.10279@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <20090306171117.GD12880@zoy.org>

Hi,

On Fri, 6 Mar 2009, Sam Hocevar wrote:

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> On Fri, Mar 06, 2009, Brandon Casey wrote:
> 
> > I get the impression that you do not intend for the comments above to be
> > part of the commit message.  If that is true, then they should be placed
> > further down after the '---' and before the diff-stat, or in some other
> > way partitioned from the commit message (maybe using --->8--- notation).
> > Otherwise they will _become_ part of the commit message if Junio applies
> > this patch as-is.
> 
>    Okay. I'm definitely having a problem with git on MSYS. Is anyone
> else seeing it butcher commits it exports? They appear fine in git log
> or git log -p, but not in git format-patch. I've never had the problem
> on a Linux system.

I have never had problems with msysGit's format-patch. From Brandon's description however, it appears as if the offending changes were done manually...

Note: I missed the original message.

Ciao, Dscho