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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: git am and mangled subject lines
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 12:05:56 -0800
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Hi Phillip,

Phillip Susi wrote:

> git am already ignores the "[PATCH X/Y]" prefix that format-patch
> adds.  Is it possible to get it to ignore any additional prefix that a
> bug tracker mangles into the subject line?  i.e. "bug #nnnn:"?

builtin/mailinfo.c is the place to start (see git-mailinfo(1)).
This is a little tricky because some people *like* the "bug #nnnn:"
in the subject line for a commit.

Hope that helps,
Jonathan