From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joel Becker Subject: Re: git-commit: allow From: line to be entered in commit message Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 12:01:24 -0800 Message-ID: <20060113200124.GO14196@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> References: <20060112093700.1d3d25db.seanlkml@sympatico.ca> <20060112190031.GH14196@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> <7vhd89mc0y.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <20060113065855.GJ14196@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> <7vpsmwbo9s.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <20060113191231.GM14196@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> <7vhd877w9m.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Jan 13 21:05:40 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ExVAk-00061G-5s for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 13 Jan 2006 21:05:19 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422939AbWAMUCH (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jan 2006 15:02:07 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1422905AbWAMUBo (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jan 2006 15:01:44 -0500 Received: from rgminet01.oracle.com ([148.87.122.30]:17192 "EHLO rgminet01.oracle.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422920AbWAMUB3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jan 2006 15:01:29 -0500 Received: from rgmsgw01.us.oracle.com (rgmsgw01.us.oracle.com [138.1.186.51]) by rgminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.1.6/Switch-3.1.6) with ESMTP id k0DK1OeA013766; Fri, 13 Jan 2006 13:01:25 -0700 Received: from rgmsgw01.us.oracle.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by rgmsgw01.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.1.7/Switch-3.1.7) with ESMTP id k0DK1OOa030868; Fri, 13 Jan 2006 13:01:24 -0700 Received: from ca-server1.us.oracle.com (ca-server1.us.oracle.com [139.185.48.5]) by rgmsgw01.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.1.7/Switch-3.1.7) with ESMTP id k0DK1NXt030856 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Fri, 13 Jan 2006 13:01:24 -0700 Received: from jlbec by ca-server1.us.oracle.com with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ExV6y-0002xW-Ga; Fri, 13 Jan 2006 12:01:24 -0800 To: Junio C Hamano Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7vhd877w9m.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> X-Burt-Line: Trees are cool. X-Red-Smith: Ninety feet between bases is perhaps as close as man has ever come to perfection. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 11:39:17AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > That's what I do. Although I use git-am not git-applymbox, both > of them are designed to work that way. While I can see that git-am and git-applymbox have different options for the same basic task, I can't quite see why one would be preferred to the other. What does git-am do that git-applymbox does not? Joel -- "I'm so tired of being tired, Sure as night will follow day. Most things I worry about Never happen anyway." Joel Becker Principal Software Developer Oracle E-mail: joel.becker@oracle.com Phone: (650) 506-8127