From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Rast Subject: Re: [patch] gitignore: warn about pointless syntax Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2012 14:44:45 +0100 Message-ID: <87vcolrnw2.fsf@thomas.inf.ethz.ch> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Cc: To: Jan Engelhardt X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Jan 09 14:44:57 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RkFWv-0002ZM-OJ for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Jan 2012 14:44:54 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754807Ab2AINot (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jan 2012 08:44:49 -0500 Received: from edge10.ethz.ch ([82.130.75.186]:37709 "EHLO edge10.ethz.ch" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752249Ab2AINot (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jan 2012 08:44:49 -0500 Received: from CAS12.d.ethz.ch (172.31.38.212) by edge10.ethz.ch (82.130.75.186) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.1.355.2; Mon, 9 Jan 2012 14:44:45 +0100 Received: from thomas.inf.ethz.ch.ethz.ch (129.132.153.233) by CAS12.d.ethz.ch (172.31.38.212) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.1.355.2; Mon, 9 Jan 2012 14:44:46 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Jan Engelhardt's message of "Mon, 9 Jan 2012 12:34:12 +0100 (CET)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) X-Originating-IP: [129.132.153.233] Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Jan Engelhardt writes: > parent eac2d83247ea0a265d923518c26873bb12c33778 (v1.7.9-rc0) > commit b629bde461aeb178b257ab7e0f6c180f69f98cb0 > Author: Jan Engelhardt > Date: Mon Jan 9 12:30:07 2012 +0100 > > gitignore: warn about pointless syntax [...] > -- > # Created with git-export-patch Are you the author of this tool? The format is bogus in so far as it causes git-am to insert the above lines into the git commit message, as in: $ git am -3 < gitignore-patch.mbox Applying: gitignore: warn about pointless syntax $ git show commit 59bea4d9a1de3b3b9c0139de4298ffd9d9431457 Author: Jan Engelhardt Date: Mon Jan 9 12:34:12 2012 +0100 gitignore: warn about pointless syntax parent eac2d83247ea0a265d923518c26873bb12c33778 (v1.7.9-rc0) commit b629bde461aeb178b257ab7e0f6c180f69f98cb0 Author: Jan Engelhardt Date: Mon Jan 9 12:30:07 2012 +0100 gitignore: warn about pointless syntax [...] So using this tool over format-patch is just a pointless cause of manual fixup work. -- Thomas Rast trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch