Subject: Re: A shortcoming of the git repo format

From: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 11:47:36 -0700

Dave Jones wrote:
> 
> That actually broke one of my first git scripts when one of the
> changelog texts started a line with 'tree '.  I hacked around it
> by making my script only grep in the 'head -n4' lines, but this
> seems somewhat fragile having to make assumptions that the field
> I want to see is in the first 4 lines.
> 

You have the delimiter for that; there is an empty line between the 
header and the free-form body, similar as for RFC822.

	-hpa