Re: git-commit: allow From: line to be entered in commit message

On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 19:58:20 -0800
Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

sean [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

...   In fact, it would seem more
consistent to tell someone that a From: line will be handled properly
whether they use git-am or git-commit. 

Yuck.

Somebody using am/applymbox is not writing that "From: " line
himself.  The person who writes that "From: " line writes that
into his MUA when sending a patch --- that is "editing an
email", so there is a consistency between that activity and use
of word "From: ".

The editor for commit message does not have anything to do with
e-mail.  What you are talking about is not consistency, but
confusion.

I don't imagine that the person "editing" the commit message is
doing so in this case either, rather copy-n-pasting.  If you're
really dead-set against this method, you should at least consider
adding it as a command line option, because having to set this
via environment variables is a much bigger Yuck.

Sean