linux-kernel - Re: [git patches] libata fixes

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710302045310.31325@fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr>
Date:	Tue, 30 Oct 2007 20:46:25 +0100 (CET)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
cc:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>, Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@...uu.se>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-ide@...r.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [git patches] libata fixes


On Oct 30 2007 12:31, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>On Tue, 30 Oct 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>> 
>> Can we change git-am to accept two dashes as well as three?  :)
>> 
>> It seems pretty common, not just with Mikael but several others who send
>> patches to me.
>
>Well, git-am actually used to be a lot less strict about the dashes, and 
>we've made it *more* strict rather than less, because the more of these 
>breaks we accept, the more likely it is that something that was intended 
>to be part of the message gets thrown out.. So I'll say that I'm a bit 
>nervous about extending it again.

I would not add --. It is already used ("-- " is) in the mail world as a
signature separator. Let's stay with ---, which is also what quilt generates.
>
>The reason for the three dashes is actually that that is what a *diff* 
>starts with. So if you look at what "closes" a description as far as 
>git-am is concerned, they are currently all things that are likely to 
>start a patch: "Index: " or "diff -" or "--- <filename>", and that last 
>case was then extended to be "manual break" even without the filename 
>information.
>
>See git/builtin-mailinfo.c: patchbreak().
>
>But you could try to sell it to Junio. He's the maintainer, and while I 
>care about some other things and will argue violently against them, when 
>it comes to something like this, Junio is the guy to go to.
>
>That said, I really think you could just try to educate the people you 
>work with. Maybe they just never even realized that "three dashes" is what 
>you're supposed to use!
>
>		Linus
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