From: Xavier Maillard <zedek@gnu.org>
To: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: format-patch and send-email
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 19:17:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9388.1171822645@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vps87hlbp.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
Hi Junio,
Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
> Xavier Maillard <zedek@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> [SNIP SNIP]
>
> The "format-patch" output was designed to (minimally) mimic what
> you would see in a UNIX mbox as if you (or whoever would apply
> the e-mailed patches to repository) received it, so that anybody
> can later run "am" on it. The first "From " is what sometimes
> is called "UNIX-From " line, which separates each piece of
> e-mail in mbox formatted mailbox file. The second one is used
> to record the author of the patch.
>
> The commit log message is expected to be:
>
> A single line description of a patch
>
> More detailed explanation of the patch with
> possibly multi-line or multi-paragraph text.
>
> and the single line description becomes the subject.
Ok so I need to revert my usual practise :)
Thank you for your answers. I know have understood what was wrong
;)
Regards,
Xavier
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2007-02-18 8:49 format-patch and send-email Xavier Maillard
2007-02-18 9:22 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-02-18 18:17 ` Xavier Maillard [this message]
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