Re: git am should recognize >From

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Russ Allbery wrote:

> I process a lot of git format-patch patches as attachments,

Aside: it seems that many format-patch users are not using it to
generate an mbox with a template message, as originally intended;
instead, they just write a cover letter and attach the generated
patches to it. Are we not advertising the "am --scissors" facility[1]
well enough?

Maybe format-patch could provide another mode to produce patches that
do not include unnecessary headers (in particular, leaving out the
difficult "From " line and using UTF-8 instead of quoted-printable for
the "From: " line).

All that is irrelevant to the "git am" feature suggestion, of course.

Thanks for a reminder,
Jonathan

[1]
 > lorem ipsum etc etc
 ... reply as usual ...
 ...
 How about this patch?
 -- 8< --
 From: Patch Author <au.thor@example.com>
 Subject: foo: do "bar" better

 patch description
 ---
 ... patch ...