From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Willy Tarreau Subject: Re: stripping [PATCH] without losing later tags from mailed patches (Re: [ 02/12] Remove COMPAT_IA32 support) Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 09:58:20 +0100 Message-ID: <20120312085820.GA11569@1wt.eu> References: <20120312002046.041448832@1wt.eu> <1331514446.3022.140.camel@deadeye> <20120312024948.GB4650@kroah.com> <20120312063027.GB8971@1wt.eu> <20120312064855.GB16820@burratino> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Greg KH , Ben Hutchings , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, git@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Rast To: Jonathan Nieder X-From: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Mar 12 09:59:01 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: glk-linux-kernel-3@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1S715o-0007ml-FV for glk-linux-kernel-3@plane.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Mar 2012 09:59:00 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753275Ab2CLI6p (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Mar 2012 04:58:45 -0400 Received: from 1wt.eu ([62.212.114.60]:63155 "EHLO 1wt.eu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752793Ab2CLI6l (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Mar 2012 04:58:41 -0400 Received: (from willy@localhost) by mail.home.local (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id q2C8wKKP011585; Mon, 12 Mar 2012 09:58:20 +0100 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120312064855.GB16820@burratino> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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