Re: git-svn rebase screwing up commit messages

> Sean <seanlkml@sympatico.ca> writes:
> 
>>> Having said all that, so that the readers understand the
>>> background, here is a not-so-heavily-tested patch, which might
>>> help.  It passes all the test suite as before, but that tells
>>> how existing git-svn tests do not test many things.
>>> 
>>> I am not considering this for inclusion right now, by the way.
>>
>> FWIW your patch fixed my test case here.
> 
> Actually the patched behaviour actively encourages a bad (not in
> the sense that those oneline tools will not work well, but in
> the sense that these messages are reader unfriendly) practice; I
> do not think what the patch did deserves to be called "fixed".
> 
> And that is one of the reasons, other than that we are in -rc
> freeze that we do not add anything but unarguable fixes, that I
> am not considering the patch for inclusion right now.