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diff --git a/Documentation/git-interpret-trailers.txt b/Documentation/git-interpret-trailers.txt index 4966b5b104..e99bda6add 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-interpret-trailers.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-interpret-trailers.txt @@ -57,11 +57,12 @@ minus signs start the patch part of the message. When reading trailers, there can be whitespaces after the token, the separator and the value. There can also be whitespaces -inside the token and the value. +inside the token and the value. The value may be split over multiple lines with +each subsequent line starting with whitespace, like the "folding" in RFC 822. Note that 'trailers' do not follow and are not intended to follow many -rules for RFC 822 headers. For example they do not follow the line -folding rules, the encoding rules and probably many other rules. +rules for RFC 822 headers. For example they do not follow +the encoding rules and probably many other rules. OPTIONS ------- |