From 3db964b551827e25f897cc75ffd8e520ee8b48cd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stephen Boyd Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 22:18:42 -0700 Subject: git-am.txt: add an 'a', say what 'it' is, simplify a sentence It's nice to know that 'it' is git-am or the subject line. Whitespace implies characters so just remove characters. Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/git-am.txt | 12 ++++++------ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/git-am.txt b/Documentation/git-am.txt index 1e71dd536..a497010ae 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-am.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-am.txt @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ OPTIONS -s:: --signoff:: - Add `Signed-off-by:` line to the commit message, using + Add a `Signed-off-by:` line to the commit message, using the committer identity of yourself. -k:: @@ -118,8 +118,8 @@ The commit author name is taken from the "From: " line of the message, and commit author time is taken from the "Date: " line of the message. The "Subject: " line is used as the title of the commit, after stripping common prefix "[PATCH ]". -It is supposed to describe what the commit is about concisely as -a one line text. +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 @@ -128,8 +128,8 @@ to override the values of these fields. The commit message is formed by the title taken from the "Subject: ", a blank line and the body of the message up to -where the patch begins. Excess whitespace characters at the end of the -lines are automatically stripped. +where the patch begins. Excess whitespace at the end of each +line is automatically stripped. The patch is expected to be inline, directly following the message. Any line that is of the form: @@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ message. Any line that is of the form: is taken as the beginning of a patch, and the commit log message is terminated before the first occurrence of such a line. -When initially invoking it, you give it the names of the mailboxes +When initially invoking `git am`, you give it the names of the mailboxes to process. Upon seeing the first patch that does not apply, it aborts in the middle. You can recover from this in one of two ways: -- cgit v1.2.1 From e77063fccb4c1627bd4656a42a508391d16e7482 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stephen Boyd Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 22:19:00 -0700 Subject: git-am.txt: Use date or value instead of time or timestamp Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/git-am.txt | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/git-am.txt b/Documentation/git-am.txt index a497010ae..ea84cbb81 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-am.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-am.txt @@ -79,14 +79,14 @@ default. You can use `--no-utf8` to override this. message as the commit author date, and uses the time of commit creation as the committer date. This allows the user to lie about the committer date by using the same - timestamp as the author date. + value as the author date. --ignore-date:: By default the command records the date from the e-mail message as the commit author date, and uses the time of commit creation as the committer date. This allows the - user to lie about author timestamp by using the same - timestamp as the committer date. + user to lie about the author date by using the same + value as the committer date. --skip:: Skip the current patch. This is only meaningful when @@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ DISCUSSION ---------- The commit author name is taken from the "From: " line of the -message, and commit author time is taken from the "Date: " line +message, and commit author date is taken from the "Date: " line of the message. The "Subject: " line is used as the title of the commit, after stripping common prefix "[PATCH ]". The "Subject: " line is supposed to concisely describe what the -- cgit v1.2.1 From 7713e053fd13a09b548cb65d99dfca986064955e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stephen Boyd Date: Sun, 3 May 2009 23:46:58 -0700 Subject: git-am.txt: reword extra headers in message body Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/git-am.txt | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') 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 ]". 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 -- cgit v1.2.1