Package: git Version: 1:2.38.1-1 Severity: minor When "git cherry-pick -x" is used, a "cherry picked from commit" line is added to the commit message. A blank line is usually added, but not always. A blank line should *always* be added.
Example in the mpfr repository: commit e23fcc05837278a7bcac607c6c00b0949629e5f3 Author: Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> Date: 2022-11-30 13:05:59 +0100 [doc/mpfr.texi] 2 replacements of ASCII "-" by @minus{}. Note: these should be the last remaining issues with the minus sign. in master. When I used "git cherry-pick -x e23fcc05837278a7bcac607c6c00b0949629e5f3" in the 4.1 branch, I got: commit 3a77d6e977ceb9c3bcf49252a18931a5f647f37a Author: Vincent Lefevre <vinc...@vinc17.net> Date: 2022-11-30 13:05:59 +0100 [doc/mpfr.texi] 2 replacements of ASCII "-" by @minus{}. Note: these should be the last remaining issues with the minus sign. (cherry picked from commit e23fcc05837278a7bcac607c6c00b0949629e5f3) instead of commit 3a77d6e977ceb9c3bcf49252a18931a5f647f37a Author: Vincent Lefevre <vinc...@vinc17.net> Date: 2022-11-30 13:05:59 +0100 [doc/mpfr.texi] 2 replacements of ASCII "-" by @minus{}. Note: these should be the last remaining issues with the minus sign. (cherry picked from commit e23fcc05837278a7bcac607c6c00b0949629e5f3) I had to fix this manually with "git commit --amend". -- System Information: Debian Release: bookworm/sid APT prefers unstable-debug APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') merged-usr: no Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 6.0.0-5-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages git depends on: ii git-man 1:2.38.1-1 ii libc6 2.36-5 ii libcurl3-gnutls 7.86.0-2 ii liberror-perl 0.17029-2 ii libexpat1 2.5.0-1 ii libpcre2-8-0 10.40-2 ii perl 5.36.0-4 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.13.dfsg-1 Versions of packages git recommends: ii ca-certificates 20211016 ii less 590-1+local1 ii openssh-client [ssh-client] 1:9.1p1-1 ii patch 2.7.6-7 Versions of packages git suggests: ii gettext-base 0.21-10 pn git-cvs <none> pn git-daemon-run | git-daemon-sysvinit <none> ii git-doc 1:2.38.1-1 ii git-email 1:2.38.1-1 ii git-gui 1:2.38.1-1 pn git-mediawiki <none> pn git-svn <none> ii gitk 1:2.38.1-1 pn gitweb <none> -- no debconf information -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)