Re: When can we stop writing ChangeLogs?

["Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro at wdc dot com>]

On Mon, 7 Oct 2019, Florian Weimer wrote:

> > The patch *should* conform to git am --scissors for cutting out non-patch
> > parts.
> 
> To be clear here, the problem is not the scissors processing.  What I
> find very confusing is that scissors does not drop anything.  It is just
> a boundary between the commit message (taken verbatim) and the part
> which is parsed as a patch.  This means that the part of the scissors is
> not actually ignored by git am; it gets passed to the patch parser in
> git apply, and what happens then entirely depends on the patch parser
> (which may or may not match what the human eye sees).

 Hmm, aren't you talking about the three-dash separator by any chance, 
which has nothing to do with the scissors line?

 I just made a little test by adding:

discussion
8<-------------------------------------------------------------------->8

at the beginning of the message body of a git-am-compliant patch I 
recently processed and fed it to `git mailinfo --scissors' (which is what 
`git am' uses under the hood) and it correctly stripped "discussion" and 
the scissors line in producing the commit message.

  Maciej