Re: [git patches] libata fixes

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Jan Engelhardt <[email protected]> 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.
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