# Shouldn't git-am be able to pass -b to git-mailinfo? 1 messages from 2011-07-15 to 2011-07-15. Participants: Jan Winkler. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/27821 ## Jan Winkler, 2011-07-15 00:22 Subject: Shouldn't git-am be able to pass -b to git-mailinfo? Message-ID: <20110715002206.GA19234@louise.pinerecords.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20110715002206.GA19234%40louise.pinerecords.com ``` Hi, I've been wondering: git-am can pass -k to git-mailinfo, but not -b. It's thus impossible to preserve a commitmsg starting with a bracketed text. Consider a commitmsg starting with '[ISSUE-1234] Fix breakage in XY.' git format-patch produces: ... Subject: [PATCH] [ISSUE-1234] Fix breakage in XY. ... Applying this patch using git-am results in commit message starting either with Fix breakage... or, using git-am -k, with [PATCH] [ISSUE-1234] Fix... However, there is no way to get the original commit message using git-am's interface. Or am I missing something? I'd supply a patch straight away, however, I can't think of a long version of -b option to go well with -k/--keep. Any ideas? -- Jan Winkler ```