On Tue, 2013-09-10 at 22:17 +0000, Miller, Mike (OS Dev) wrote:
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Bottomley [mailto:james.bottom...@hansenpartnership.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2013 5:02 PM
> To: Miller, Mike (OS Dev)
> Cc: Andrew Morton; LKML; LKML-scsi
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] hpsa: add HP Smart Array Gen9 PCI ID's
> 
> On Wed, 2013-09-04 at 15:05 -0500, Mike Miller wrote:
> > Patch 1 of 4
> > 
> > From: Mike Miller <mike.mil...@hp.com>
> 
> Just for future reference, doing it this way means I have to edit the patch.  
> The way git am works when applying patches is that if the first body line is 
> a keyword it recognises (like From: or Subject: or Date:) it will fold that 
> into the commit metadata, otherwise everything becomes the commit message.  
> So by putting the redundant "patch 1 of 4" first, git thinks the entire body 
> is the commit message.
> 
> James
> 
> Sorry about that. I didn't realize git worked that way. So let me ask
> a dumb question, just having [PATCH x/y] in the subject line is
> enough?

Yes, that's what all the apply scripts go by.

>  Would you like me to resubmit the patchset?

No; I just edited the messages this time.

James


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