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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git-am.txt')
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1 files changed, 6 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-am.txt b/Documentation/git-am.txt index e6ab3dfa57..87781f4a77 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-am.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-am.txt @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ SYNOPSIS [--3way] [--interactive] [--committer-date-is-author-date] [--ignore-date] [--ignore-space-change | --ignore-whitespace] [--whitespace=<option>] [-C<n>] [-p<n>] [--directory=<dir>] - [--reject] [-q | --quiet] + [--reject] [-q | --quiet] [--scissors] [<mbox> | <Maildir>...] 'git am' (--skip | --resolved | --abort) @@ -39,6 +39,11 @@ OPTIONS --keep:: Pass `-k` flag to 'git-mailinfo' (see linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]). +-c:: +--scissors:: + Remove everything in body before a scissors line (see + linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]). + -q:: --quiet:: Be quiet. Only print error messages. @@ -128,16 +133,6 @@ 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. -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. |