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authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2012-09-17 16:57:41 -0700
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2012-09-17 16:57:41 -0700
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@@ -1226,8 +1226,10 @@ refuses to run when given pathnames (but see <tt>-i</tt> option).</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>Though not required, it&#8217;s a good idea to begin the commit message
with a single short (less than 50 character) line summarizing the
change, followed by a blank line and then a more thorough description.
-Tools that turn commits into email, for example, use the first line
-on the Subject: line and the rest of the commit in the body.</p></div>
+The text up to the first blank line in a commit message is treated
+as the commit title, and that title is used throughout git.
+For example, <a href="git-format-patch.html">git-format-patch(1)</a> turns a commit into email, and it uses
+the title on the Subject line and the rest of the commit in the body.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>At the core level, git is character encoding agnostic.</p></div>
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@@ -1347,7 +1349,7 @@ information.</p></div>
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-Last updated 2012-07-24 15:05:00 PDT
+Last updated 2012-09-17 16:55:59 PDT
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