@DecaturNature Exception: github does apply patches in case of rebase/merge, but those are patches specifically generated by diffing trees, never patches provided by users (much less commit messages). I'm not sure we even do that using any kind of custom code - probably we just use git. I'm a GitHub employee. To quibble with the framing of the original: the unsafe behavior is using `patch` to apply patches - good reminder to be super careful doing that. yow