Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: add caveat about roundtripping format-patch

From: "Kristoffer Haugsbakk" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2026 18:18:48 +0100

On Sun, Feb 8, 2026, at 02:39, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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>> Notes (series):
>>     There might be other things to do here. Mention it in gitfaq(5)?
>>
>>     § Trailers
>>
>>     • Reported-by: Matthias Beyer <[email-masked]>
>>       • From this thread
>>     Reported-by: Christoph Anton Mitterer <[email-masked]>
>>       • From https://lore.kernel.org/git/[email-masked]/T/#u
>>     Reported-by: Matheus Tavares <[email-masked]>
>>       • From https://lore.kernel.org/git/d0b5778251[email-masked]/#t
>>     Reported-by: Chris Packham <[email-masked]>
>>       • From https://lore.kernel.org/git/CAFOYHZC6Qd9wkoWPcTJDxAs9u=[email-masked]/
>>
>>     (These were all linked in https://lore.kernel.org/git/[email-masked]/ )
>>
>>     Helped-by: Jakob Haufe <[email-masked]>
>>       • For the part about patch(1): https://lore.kernel.org/git/[email-masked]/T/#mc389dbd2ae02a007cbe57cd16ca4790ecc5a84f7
>
> The space after three-dash line is to give additional information to
> help readers, but the above does not qualify as one.

It’s not for you. It’s for the people that got CCd to inform them of the
years-ago context where they reported this and why they are mentioned by
name in the email.

I do go overboard with the writing though sometimes.

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