Hi all,

I noticed that when I use aerc to apply a patchset using the command

   :pipe git am 

The produced git commit message is missing the mail subject that
contains the first commit line. It happens even if I use the `-k`
flag.

The problem doesn't happens if I curl the patch mbox and apply it
manually (also using `git am`.

Is there something that I am doing wrong or this is an issue with
aerc itself?

Cheers.
Oscar

Hi there,

On Sun Apr 9, 2023 at 4:21 PM CEST, 'Oscar Campos' wrote:
> I noticed that when I use aerc to apply a patchset using the command
>
>    :pipe git am 
Consider using it with -3 by default. git can be rather picky otherwise,

> The produced git commit message is missing the mail subject that
> contains the first commit line. It happens even if I use the `-k`
> flag.
Not sure what the -k is supposed to do. You'd want -m or pipe it from the
message list, then it includes the headers.

-- 
Moritz Poldrack
https://moritz.sh

On Sun Apr 9, 2023 at 3:51 PM IST, Moritz Poldrack wrote:
> Consider using it with -3 by default. git can be rather picky otherwise,

Thanks for the tip

> Not sure what the -k is supposed to do. You'd want -m or pipe it from the
> message list, then it includes the headers.

The -k flag prevents git from remove parts of the message Subject while
parsing the commit message from it

I just noticed using `:pipe cat` that the piped message has no Subject,
or any other header except `From`. Might this be a misconfiguration?

Cheers,
Oscar

Hi Oscar,

'Oscar Campos', Apr 09, 2023 at 17:15:
> I just noticed using `:pipe cat` that the piped message has no Subject,
> or any other header except `From`. Might this be a misconfiguration?

:pipe only outputs the selected message part by default (unless used
from the message list). If you want to pipe the full message, use the -m
flag as described in the man page:

https://git.sr.ht/~rjarry/aerc/tree/master/item/doc/aerc.1.scd#L226-232

Hi Robin,

On Sun Apr 9, 2023 at 4:29 PM IST, Robin Jarry wrote:

> :pipe only outputs the selected message part by default (unless used
> from the message list). If you want to pipe the full message, use the -m
> flag as described in the man page:

Gotcha, now I understand what Moritz meant with -m, I thouht he was
speaking about the `git am` command (and I suspect he thought I was
speaking about the :pipe command when I mentioned I used -k earlier)

Thanks for the tip, everything works fine now

Keep up the fantastic job btw.

Cheers,
Oscar