Just now, I was exploring git-am's interactive mode, so as to comply
with Linus's urgings of a cleaner changelog <grin>. I had a raw email
changelog with the subject
Re: 2.6.24-rc3-git6: Reported regressions from 2.6.23
I used the [e]dit feature of interactive mode to change this
first-line/one-line summary to
pata_amd/pata_via: de-couple programming of PIO/MWDMA and UDMA
timings
When I hit [y]es to apply the patch, git reported
Applying 2.6.24-rc3-git6: Reported regressions from 2.6.23
Wrote tree 34cebd48e3b4e90fe3e6a6c6c03154ae1ed0c827
Committed: 943547abdfe9b4e27e36a25987909619908dffbf
The use of the older one-line summary led me to believe that it had not
committed my changelog edits. Looking at the result, however, proved
that the commit changelog was my new, corrected version.
Thus, I concluded that the printing of the old-and-no-longer-valid
changelog during the commit-to-tree phase was a bug.
Please see attached file for full example.
Thanks,
Jeff