From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Sat, 07 Mar 2009 02:48:34 GMT Subject: Re: msysgit corrupting commit messages? Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20090306171117.GD12880@zoy.org> Hi, On Fri, 6 Mar 2009, Sam Hocevar wrote: > 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