Re: [Quilt-dev] [RFC][PATCH v2][QUILT] Add gpg signing to quilt mail

[Steven Rostedt]

On Tue, 2011-10-04 at 11:26 -0700, Greg KH wrote:

> > What are git's "split" subject: lines?
> 
> Do the following:
>  $ git show --pretty=email 21d17dd2a377ba894f26989915eb3c6e427a3656
> 
> and look at how the Subject line is formatted:
>       Subject: [PATCH] ASoC: Fix setting update bits for WM8753_LADC and
>        WM8753_RADC
> 
> Which is legal for email subject lines.  But quilt can't handle this and
> ends up thinking the data after the Subject: line is part of the patch
> text body and messes stuff up when doing 'quilt mail' later.
> 
> So I have to remember to edit the subject: lines all the time, and
> cringe when I forget.
> 
> Oh, then there's the issue of quilt not handling ',' in a Signed-off-by
> line as a valid email address name, but I've been living with that one
> for years...
> 

Hmm, while I'm currently working under the quilt hood, I'll see if I
could get some patches here to help you out ;)

-- Steve