Re: [PATCH] fix IBM EMAC driver after rename.

[Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>]

On Fri, 2011-08-19 at 13:57 +1000, Tony Breeds wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 08:44:00PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> > Don't do this :-(  When you reply to me as your new version of the patch
> > it craps up the commit message.
> > Always make a fresh, new, patch posting with a clean full commit message
> > without any non-essential material included.
> > I'm not applying this, because I'm pretty sick and tired of having to
> > edit up people's patch postings when they do stuff like this.
> Sorry I thought git am coped with this.

It can if you move the quoted stuff below the
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separator, though I don't know what patchworks
does with threaded [PATCH V2] content.  I do
think it's useful when the corrected patch
is appropriately threaded.

The corrected patch email could look like:

Subject: [PATCH V2] module: description

typical multi-line patch description...

Signed-off-by: etc

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> On some date, somebody wrote:
> quoted stuff

Description of delta between patch 1 and patch 2.

actual patch...