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Message-ID: <20120312085820.GA11569@1wt.eu>
Date:	Mon, 12 Mar 2012 09:58:20 +0100
From:	Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>
To:	Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@...il.com>
Cc:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	git@...r.kernel.org, Thomas Rast <trast@...dent.ethz.ch>
Subject: Re: stripping [PATCH] without losing later tags from mailed patches (Re: [ 02/12] Remove COMPAT_IA32 support)

Hi Jonathan,

On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 01:48:55AM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> > Indeed, and I've even changed my patch formats in haproxy to avoid brackets
> > due to this issue. The cause is that many patches are sent with a [PATCH]
> > prefix and that with Git, either you keep the subject line intact or you
> > remove everything that is between brackets. There's the -b option to only
> > remove remove tags looking like [PATCH], but my general experience with it
> > was not satisfying (I don't remind why).
> 
> Maybe the problem was as simple as "git am" not knowing about "-b".

I think you're quite right.

> Two relevant patches:
> 
>   f7e5ea17 (am: learn passing -b to mailinfo, 2012-01-16)
>   ee2d1cb4 (mailinfo: with -b, keep space after [foo], 2012-01-16)
> 
> are in "master" and 1.7.10-rc0 and were not part of any earlier release.
>
> Kudos to Thomas for writing them.

Ah, thank you very much for this useful info, I'll update my version !

Cheers,
Willy

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