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authorJunio C Hamano <junio@hera.kernel.org>2009-05-06 07:38:42 +0000
committerJunio C Hamano <junio@hera.kernel.org>2009-05-06 07:38:42 +0000
commit86f3157f238fb5301c7f29bf703330e333be9265 (patch)
tree82df739f45d3f177ea97a8c1c6e4f0ab7d1a1af5 /git-am.html
parent61ec15cca78e81f81b635f831b715e71d993b3ae (diff)
downloadgit-htmldocs-86f3157f238fb5301c7f29bf703330e333be9265.tar.gz
Autogenerated HTML docs for v1.6.3-rc4-29-g8146
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@@ -356,7 +356,7 @@ current branch.</p></div>
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
- Add <tt>Signed-off-by:</tt> line to the commit message, using
+ Add a <tt>Signed-off-by:</tt> line to the commit message, using
the committer identity of yourself.
</p>
</dd>
@@ -453,7 +453,7 @@ default. You can use <tt>--no-utf8</tt> to override this.</p></div>
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.
</p>
</dd>
<dt>
@@ -464,8 +464,8 @@ default. You can use <tt>--no-utf8</tt> to override this.</p></div>
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.
</p>
</dd>
<dt>
@@ -518,19 +518,19 @@ default. You can use <tt>--no-utf8</tt> to override this.</p></div>
<h2 id="_discussion">DISCUSSION</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="para"><p>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 &lt;anything&gt;]".
-It is supposed to describe what the commit is about concisely as
-a one line text.</p></div>
-<div class="para"><p>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.</p></div>
+The "Subject: " line is supposed to concisely describe what the
+commit is about in one line of text.</p></div>
+<div class="para"><p>"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.</p></div>
<div class="para"><p>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.</p></div>
+where the patch begins. Excess whitespace at the end of each
+line is automatically stripped.</p></div>
<div class="para"><p>The patch is expected to be inline, directly following the
message. Any line that is of the form:</p></div>
<div class="ilist"><ul>
@@ -552,7 +552,7 @@ a line that begins with "Index: "
</ul></div>
<div class="para"><p>is taken as the beginning of a patch, and the commit log message
is terminated before the first occurrence of such a line.</p></div>
-<div class="para"><p>When initially invoking it, you give it the names of the mailboxes
+<div class="para"><p>When initially invoking <tt>git am</tt>, 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:</p></div>
<div class="olist"><ol>
@@ -598,7 +598,7 @@ errors in the "From:" lines).</p></div>
</div>
<div id="footer">
<div id="footer-text">
-Last updated 2009-04-02 06:49:44 UTC
+Last updated 2009-05-06 07:38:30 UTC
</div>
</div>
</body>