A very stupid question about formatting a patch :)

[Greg KH]

On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 12:46:30PM +0300, Aleksander Alekseev wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> When I do `git format-patch` I get something like this:
> 
> ```
>  Documentation/kselftest.txt | 5 +++--
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/kselftest.txt b/Documentation/kselftest.txt
> index 979eaca..54bee77 100644
> (SNIP)
> ```
> 
> Note an empty line between statistics and patch itself. Judging by
> lkml.org _everyone_ removes this empty line. So my question is --- is
> there really such a requirement for formatting a patch or it's just
> something that depends on git version?

I don't see anyone removing that line, perhaps you aren't looking at the
patch properly in an email client?

Leave it in there, it's good to have.

thanks,

greg k-h