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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bridge: assign random address
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 20:09:57 -0500
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David Miller wrote:
> From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
> Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2007 20:46:24 -0500
> 
>> David Miller wrote:
>>> [Patch 1/7] [SUBSYSTEM]: Foo bar baz...
>> The most popular tool is git-am, which I and many others use.
>>
>> git-am will snip "[SUBSYSTEM]" in the example that you give.
> 
> It should only snip the first "[Patch X/Y] " part, or the manual is
> buggy :-)

Manual is buggy.

	[jgarzik@pretzel netdev-2.6]$ grep '^Subject:' /g/tmp/mbox
	Subject: [PATCH 1/2][FOO][BAR][BAZ] tulip: napi full quantum bug

is merged as

	commit e34e20a3ae1ec30856427d260f454b8984ebced2
	Author: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
	Date:   Thu Dec 13 09:35:45 2007 -0800

	    tulip: napi full quantum bug

And that matches existing practice, where people put tons of 
not-to-be-merged metadata into the subject lines.

Regards,

	Jeff