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authorNanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com>2009-08-25 17:20:00 +0900
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2009-08-26 22:21:33 -0700
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Documentation: describe the scissors mark support of "git am"
Describe what a scissors mark looks like, and explain in what situation it is often used. Signed-off-by: Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-am.txt b/Documentation/git-am.txt
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@@ -128,10 +128,18 @@ 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.
-"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.
+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. 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.
+
+"From: " and "Subject: " lines starting the body 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