Re: git mailinfo with patch parser

2019-10-01 Thread Florian Weimer
* Junio C. Hamano: >> Is there a way to get the patch data, as parsed by git apply or git >> am, and dump it back in patch format, without actually applying the >> patch to a working tree? > > So, "the patch data as used by apply" is what you get from mailinfo. > If it is a patch that applies to w

Re: git mailinfo with patch parser

2019-10-01 Thread Junio C Hamano
Florian Weimer writes: > git mailinfo splits a message into headers, commit message, and patch > text, but does not actually parse the patch text. As a result, the > patch portion produced by git mailinfo can contain something that > looks like a patch, but actually isn't. Yes, mailinfo is abou