From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: git bug: rebase fatal failure Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 12:01:43 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: References: <482BE5F7.2050108@thorn.ws> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Tommy Thorn X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri May 16 13:02:42 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Jwxhn-0006op-Ff for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Fri, 16 May 2008 13:02:31 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751700AbYEPLBk (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 May 2008 07:01:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752278AbYEPLBk (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 May 2008 07:01:40 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:53622 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1750845AbYEPLBj (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 May 2008 07:01:39 -0400 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 16 May 2008 11:01:38 -0000 Received: from R4f5c.r.pppool.de (EHLO racer.local) [89.54.79.92] by mail.gmx.net (mp030) with SMTP; 16 May 2008 13:01:38 +0200 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/xiMkmGQTxlG+SOoxWZQ4MoSeF3rHDON1qWO8FH7 lUpm2HHn09hSJz X-X-Sender: gene099@racer In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (DEB 882 2007-12-20) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, On Fri, 16 May 2008, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > It is a .info file, so I suspect strange things going on with > non-printable ASCII characters. And indeed, this is the culprit: -- snip -- BFD Index ********* ^@^H[index^@^H] * Menu: -- snap -- Note the NUL characters? Now, the thing is: git format-patch still outputs it correctly. But git-rebase pipes the output to git-am, which in turn calls git-mailsplit, which suppresses that line. Will keep you posted, Dscho