Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757969AbXJ3WqL (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Oct 2007 18:46:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753245AbXJ3Wpz (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Oct 2007 18:45:55 -0400 Received: from sceptre.pobox.com ([207.106.133.20]:37182 "EHLO sceptre.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751574AbXJ3Wpx (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Oct 2007 18:45:53 -0400 From: Junio C Hamano To: Jan Engelhardt Subject: Re: [git patches] libata fixes References: <20071030184502.GA27246@havoc.gtf.org> <47278206.2080601@garzik.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds , Jeff Garzik , Mikael Pettersson , Andrew Morton , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, LKML Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:45:42 -0700 In-Reply-To: (Jan Engelhardt's message of "Tue, 30 Oct 2007 20:46:25 +0100 (CET)") Message-ID: <7v1wbckyqx.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1088 Lines: 25 Jan Engelhardt writes: > On Oct 30 2007 12:31, Linus Torvalds wrote: >>On Tue, 30 Oct 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote: >>> >>> Can we change git-am to accept two dashes as well as three? :) >> >>Well, git-am actually used to be a lot less strict about the dashes, and >>we've made it *more* strict rather than less, because the more of these >>breaks we accept, the more likely it is that something that was intended >>to be part of the message gets thrown out.. So I'll say that I'm a bit >>nervous about extending it again. > > I would not add --. It is already used ("-- " is) in the mail world as a > signature separator. Let's stay with ---, which is also what quilt generates. Thanks for the input about what quilt does. So the way to proceed is to have no change to mailinfo, and have a bit of user education. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/