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authorLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2009-07-15 15:31:12 -0700
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2009-07-29 12:34:56 -0700
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mailinfo: -b option keeps [bracketed] strings that is not a [PATCH] marker
By default, we remove leading [bracketed] [strings] from the Subject: header when coming up with the summary of the patch. This is because there are mailing lists etc that add their own headers to the subject, and they know they can add things in brackets. The most obvious example is the Linux kernel security list. Their emails look like Subject: [Security] [patch] random: make get_random_int() more random and other people mangle Subject: themselves in a similar way, e.g.: Subject: [PATCH -rc] [BUGFIX] x86: fix kernel_trap_sp() Subject: [BUGFIX][PATCH] fix bad page removal from LRU (Was Re: [RFC][PATCH] .. even though "fix" is more than enough cue to mark it as a [BUGFIX]. Some projects however want to keep these bracketed strings. With this option, we remove only [bracketed strings that contain word PATCH], so we will turn things like these [PATCH] [mailinfo] -b ... [PATCH v2] [mailinfo] -b ... [PATCH (v2) 1/4] [mailinfo] -b ... into [mailinfo] -b ... This lacks tests and integration to the "git am" toolchain to be useful, but it is a start. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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