Hello Andreas,

On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 10:02 PM, Andreas Färber [off-list ref] wrote:

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So the second "---" from Tuomas patch is actually the one generated by
git format-patch but that gets discarded by git am just like any other
text so it causes no harm when other apply the patches.

If this not the correct workflow and you have a better way to manage
this, I would love to know about it.

One drawback of having --- in the commit message is that you can't
cherry-pick but really need to use git-am for it to be stripped.

It depends on your workflow really, I don't consider the fact that git
cherry-pick does not omit that part a drawback but a feature ;-)

And as Stephen said you can do a git cherry-pick -e or amend the
commit and remove that part.

I resorted to a scripted way of handling change logs: Per patch series I
maintain a shell script that after git-format-patch essentially runs
sed -i "/---/ r /dev/stdin" $OUTDIR/0001-*.patch <<EOCL
...
EOCL
to insert my text after ---. (sed syntax is not POSIX-compliant FWIW.)
Similarly I fill in the blurbs for the cover letter.

Yes I used to use sed before indeed. Heiko also suggested patman which
looks quite interesting and may fit my workflow as well.

Cheers,
Andreas

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Best regards,
Javier