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authorStephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com>2009-05-03 23:46:58 -0700
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2009-05-05 22:09:31 -0700
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git-am.txt: reword extra headers in message body
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-am.txt8
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-am.txt b/Documentation/git-am.txt
index ea84cbb81..6d92cbee6 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-am.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-am.txt
@@ -121,10 +121,10 @@ the commit, after stripping common prefix "[PATCH <anything>]".
The "Subject: " line is supposed to concisely describe what the
commit is about in one line of text.
-The body of the message (the rest of the message after the blank line
-that terminates the RFC2822 headers) can begin with "Subject: " and
-"From: " lines that are different from those of the mail header,
-to override the values of these fields.
+"From: " and "Subject: " lines starting the body (the rest of the
+message after the blank line terminating the RFC2822 headers)
+override the respective commit author name and title values taken
+from the headers.
The commit message is formed by the title taken from the
"Subject: ", a blank line and the body of the message up to