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author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2009-08-26 21:36:05 -0700 |
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committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2009-08-26 22:22:22 -0700 |
commit | 017678b4f47dc1b2a6691631373c46daf8f63206 (patch) | |
tree | cf2a657570db595a71a35f7820a80eb2ded84309 /Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt | |
parent | f43c97f5720f48598e59629f7dc9892d082d8b0e (diff) | |
download | git-017678b4f47dc1b2a6691631373c46daf8f63206.tar.gz git-017678b4f47dc1b2a6691631373c46daf8f63206.tar.xz |
am/mailinfo: Disable scissors processing by default
You can enable it by giving --scissors to "git am".
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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1 files changed, 15 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt b/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt index 8d95aaa30..823ab82b5 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ git-mailinfo - Extracts patch and authorship from a single e-mail message SYNOPSIS -------- -'git mailinfo' [-k] [-u | --encoding=<encoding> | -n] <msg> <patch> +'git mailinfo' [-k] [-u | --encoding=<encoding> | -n] [--scissors] <msg> <patch> DESCRIPTION @@ -49,6 +49,20 @@ conversion, even with this flag. -n:: Disable all charset re-coding of the metadata. +--scissors:: + Remove everything in body before a scissors line. A line that + mainly consists of scissors (either ">8" or "8<") and perforation + (dash "-") marks is called a scissors line, and is used to request + the reader to cut the message at that line. If such a line + appears in the body of the message before the patch, everything + before it (including the scissors line itself) is ignored when + this option is used. ++ +This is useful if you want to begin your message in a discussion thread +with comments and suggestions on the message you are responding to, and to +conclude it with a patch submission, separating the discussion and the +beginning of the proposed commit log message with a scissors line. + <msg>:: The commit log message extracted from e-mail, usually except the title line which comes from e-mail Subject. |