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Subject: Re: Add option in git-am to ignore leading text?
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:31:49 +0100
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On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 04:22:19PM +0200, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote:

> IMHO, a better way would be to ignore lines beginning with a defined
> level of quotes in the commit message (the "level" beeing the number of
> '>' or '> ' found at the beginning of a line. Something like

> 	--strip-quotes[=N]

> where N is the level of quoted lines to remove (if "=N" is
> not given, assume that the level is 1 and remove all the quotes).

> Comments?

That would help but it'll still carry over at least part of the
discussion that preceeds the patch (normally the person sending the
patch will say something as well as including the patch) and it won't
pick up things like the subject line without some manual fixing.