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authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2009-08-26 21:36:05 -0700
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2009-08-26 22:22:22 -0700
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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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@@ -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.