A concesssion to the Git folks.

diff --git a/src b/src
index fff47f1e3edce3c1a639827635f85e0ba4a4029b..f841302ebd8f214c94629ee6e10332050d4d7912 100755 (executable)
--- a/src
+++ b/src
@@ -965,6 +965,9 @@ The cut line and things below it will not become part of the comment text.
                     args.pop(0)
                 except IndexError:
                     croak("%s -m requires a following string" % legend)
+            elif args.startswith("-m"):
+                self.leader = args[2:]
+                args.pop(0)
             elif args[0] == "-f":
                 args.pop(0)
                 try: