Re: [PATCH] Return unpropertized strings for filename and message-id

[Bart Trojanowski <bart@jukie.net>]

[[ First of all I am jazzed because this is the first email I am sending to
anyone other than myself from the vim interface to notmuch ]]

Getting on wit the show...

>      So to satisfy "git am", introductory and explanatory portions of
>      the email, ("Hi!" and "Here's my first patch"), have to be
>      relegated to past the "---" divider).
> 
>      I actually don't love this about "git am", since I think those
>      introductory parts are essential to having cordial and friendly
>      exchanges on the mailing list, (rather than just dryly shooting
>      code back and forth). And it feels natural to have them first. One
>      thing that might be interesting is to teach "git am" about an
>      additional divider so that other text can came *before* the commit
>      message.
> 
>      Alternately, one can put introductory text in one message, and the
>      dry commit-only stuff as a reply.

You can actually put arbitrary text between the diffstat output and the first
diff --git line.  For example:

--- 8< ---
From e6628e78d9ce3f9383a4699df9063a648617b428 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bart Trojanowski <bart@jukie.net>
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:02:05 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] this is the patch description

Text that goes here will end up in the git commit.
---
 vim/README             |    3 ++-
 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

Anything that goes here will be ignored, so you can typ

diff --git a/vim/README b/vim/README
index 299c7f8..8cd3b1a 100644
--- a/vim/README
+++ b/vim/README
@@ -42,7 +42,8 @@ Buffer types:
         You are presented with the search results when you run :NotMuch.
 
         Keybindings:
-            <Enter> - show the selected message
+            <Space> - show the selected thread colapsing unmatched items
+            <Enter> - show the entire selected thread
             a       - archive message (remove inbox tag)
             f       - filter the current search terms
             o       - toggle search screen order
-- 
1.6.4.4.2.gc2f148

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