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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-am.txt | 16 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-am.txt b/Documentation/git-am.txt index fcacc94650..e6ab3dfa57 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-am.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-am.txt @@ -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 |