being nice to patch(1)

James's current git-scsi-misc has this commit in it:


commit a16efc1cbf0a9e5ea9f99ae98fb774b60d05c35b
Author: Kars de Jong [off-list ref]
Date:   Sun Jun 17 14:47:08 2007 +0200

[SCSI] 53c700: Amiga 4000T NCR53c710 SCSI
    
    New driver for the Amiga 4000T built-in NCR53c710 SCSI controller, using the
    53c700 SCSI core.
    
    Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven [off-list ref]
    Signed-off-by: James Bottomley [off-list ref]


When one pulls that diff out of git with `git-show' or whatever, it doesn't
work - patch(1) has a heart attack over the "53c700":


|commit f98754960a9b25057ad5f249f877b3d6fab889ce
|Author: FUJITA Tomonori [off-list ref]
|Date:   Mon May 14 20:25:31 2007 +0900
|
|    [SCSI] hptiop: convert to use the data buffer accessors
|    
|    - remove the unnecessary map_single path.
|    
|    - convert to use the new accessors for the sg lists and the
|    parameters.
|    
|    Jens Axboe [off-list ref] did the for_each_sg cleanup.
|    
|    Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori [off-list ref]
|    Acked-by: HighPoint Linux Team [off-list ref]
|    Signed-off-by: James Bottomley [off-list ref]
|
|commit a16efc1cbf0a9e5ea9f99ae98fb774b60d05c35b
|Author: Kars de Jong [off-list ref]
|Date:   Sun Jun 17 14:47:08 2007 +0200
|
|    [SCSI] 53c700: Amiga 4000T NCR53c710 SCSI
|    
|    New driver for the Amiga 4000T built-in NCR53c710 SCSI controller, using the
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File to patch: 




This I assume is because ^[ ]*<number>c<number> is a magic marker for
contextual diffs.

So...  if someone is feeling really, really, really bored one day, it would
be nice to teach git to somehow escape such patch-magic-patterns in the
changelog when emitting plain old patches.