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 <h2>DISCUSSION</h2>

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+<p>The commit author name is taken from the "From: " line of the

+message, and commit author time is taken from the "Date: " line

+of the message.  The "Subject: " line is used as the title of

+the commit, after stripping common prefix "[PATCH &lt;anything&gt;]".

+It is supposed to describe what the commit is about concisely as

+a one line text.</p>

+<p>The body of the message (iow, after a blank line that terminates

+RFC2822 headers) can begin with "Subject: " and "From: " lines

+that are different from those of the mail header, to override

+the values of these fields.</p>

+<p>The commit message is formed by the title taken from the

+"Subject: ", a blank line and the body of the message up to

+where the patch begins.  Excess whitespaces at the end of the

+lines are automatically stripped.</p>

+<p>The patch is expected to be inline, directly following the

+message.  Any line that is of form:</p>

+<ul>

+<li>

+<p>

+three-dashes and end-of-line, or

+</p>

+</li>

+<li>

+<p>

+a line that begins with "diff -", or

+</p>

+</li>

+<li>

+<p>

+a line that begins with "Index: "

+</p>

+</li>

+</ul>

+<p>is taken as the beginning of a patch, and the commit log message

+is terminated before the first occurrence of such a line.</p>

 <p>When initially invoking it, you give it names of the mailboxes

 to crunch.  Upon seeing the first patch that does not apply, it

 aborts in the middle, just like <em>git-applymbox</em> does.  You can

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-Last updated 23-Mar-2007 10:46:02 UTC

+Last updated 25-Mar-2007 07:54:14 UTC

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