Jeremy Kerr <j...@ozlabs.org> writes: > Carl - I see you've done some work on git am's parser for From_ syntax; > do you know what's happening here?
Git is surprisingly broken with regard to commit messages containing the sequence of "From " at the beginning of a line. I didn't finish the patch I wanted to write here. If I had, I would have demonstrated that the current combination of "git format-patch" and "git am" cannot successfully replay git's own history, but my imagined, improved version would be able to. (And, also interesting, you can find a bunch of totally garbled commits in git's history because of this issue. Things where there is a commit message that's actually one commit message, some patch content, and then another commit message all run together). I don't recall the details of the patch I had envisioned, but basically, it was following the best-practice for reversible mailbox escaping from "From " lines. There's one obviously-correct approach that is reversible, but annoyingly, much software, (including git when I last looked), doesn't use it. -Carl
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