Subject: Re: Problem in Patches with commit-messages containing non-ascii

From: Jan Krüger <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2010 13:59:44 +0100

--- Martin Krüger <[email-masked]> wrote:

> Consider this log-Message:
> commit ea2cd63dfe9b3ac3581b6cff8b13a52e69066242
> Author: martin <[email-masked]>
> Date:   Fri Nov 19 18:58:58 2010 +0100
> 
>     Methoden überall angepasst.
>     Ausser Aussnahmen
> 

FWIW, support for multi-line summaries is very limited. Several
tools assume that the log message has this format:

<Summary in one line>
<Blank line>
<Details>

So one could argue that your patch fixes something that isn't really
supported anyway.

> [...]
> 
> Applyin leads to a correct commit-Messsage:
> 
> commit 62d06e3415ec0726dbd58c11ed93771502b77805
> Author: martin <[email-masked]>
> Date:   Fri Nov 19 18:58:58 2010 +0100
> 
>     Methoden überall angepasst.Ausser Aussnahmen

How is that correct? It's different from the original commit message.

-Jan