On 06/15/2011 05:23 PM, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Wed 15-06-11 17:16:37, Jan Safranek wrote:
>> On 06/15/2011 05:14 PM, Michal Hocko wrote:
>>> On Wed 15-06-11 16:52:49, Jan Safranek wrote:
>>>> On 06/11/2011 09:43 AM, Michal Hocko wrote:
>>>>> On Fri 10-06-11 13:12:32, Jan Safranek wrote:
>>>>>> On 06/09/2011 05:25 PM, Michal Hocko wrote:
>>>>
>>>> hmmm, how does one import only the patch below (starting with From:)
>>>> without this additional comment? I had to manually edit the patch :(
>>>
>>> I usually just save the email (shift+c in mutt) and drop everything up
>>> to --- before the patch and then git am it then.
>>
>> That's too much work. I am not that lazy, but all manual editing of
>> patches is error-prone.
>>
>> 'git am' should support scissors, it could work automatically (?) if
>> unrelated comment is separated from the patch by '8<---' instead of
>> plain '---'. But I've never used that, maybe we might try it next time :).
> 
> Didn't know about that. Thanks for the tip.

So, experiment (and a little peek into git sources) shows, that the
scissors line must be at least 8 characters long, i.e. '-- >8 --' or
'8<------' or any similar combination. Simple  '8<---' is just too short.

Jan

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