[PATCH] git-am: don't ignore --keep (-k) option

[Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>]

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> writes:
>> Before this change, a [...] prefix would be removed only as long as
>> its length did not exceed 2/3 of the subject length.  Now, when the
>> bracketed quantity starts with PATCH, it is removed unconditionally.
>> Otherwise, the existing behavior remains unchanged.
>
> Thanks, I think this is a good idea in general, but have two comments.
>
>  - I am not sure how this should play with 17635fc (mailinfo: -b option
>    keeps [bracketed] strings that is not a [PATCH] marker, 2009-07-15).

Ah ha!  I see you've already scratched this itch,
and more thoroughly, to boot.  Also, I prefer your
removal of the hard-to-describe 2/3 threshold.

>  - Regardless of interaction with 17635fc, Things like [RFC PATCH]
>    [SECURITY PATCH] might want a similar treatment.

As your patch does.

I started looking at git-am.sh and spotted what appears to be a typo.
There is only that one use of $keep_subject, so its value currently
comes from the environment.

>From 02f7e6433b5db8b18a4cccf58c302159c2f54fa5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:10:46 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] git-am: don't ignore --keep (-k) option

Fix typo in variable name: s/keep_subject/keep/.

Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
---
 git-am.sh |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/git-am.sh b/git-am.sh
index 151512a..f353e73 100755
--- a/git-am.sh
+++ b/git-am.sh
@@ -578,7 +578,7 @@ do
 			sed -e '1,/^$/d' >"$dotest/msg-clean"
 		else
 			SUBJECT="$(sed -n '/^Subject/ s/Subject: //p' "$dotest/info")"
-			case "$keep_subject" in -k)  SUBJECT="[PATCH] $SUBJECT" ;; esac
+			case "$keep" in -k)  SUBJECT="[PATCH] $SUBJECT" ;; esac

 			(printf '%s\n\n' "$SUBJECT"; cat "$dotest/msg") |
 				git stripspace > "$dotest/msg-clean"
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