summaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/git-commit.html
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorJunio C Hamano <junio@hera.kernel.org>2007-01-17 07:24:25 +0000
committerJunio C Hamano <junio@hera.kernel.org>2007-01-17 07:24:25 +0000
commit8f76dc6fae3bb5536b36c987aa521322dcdd220c (patch)
treec4cde59420f32eb3190be0721b49b5ca701baabb /git-commit.html
parent35bd025124fba3077f85bdc1fdd3a2902b5ed8bc (diff)
downloadgit-htmldocs-8f76dc6fae3bb5536b36c987aa521322dcdd220c.tar.gz
Autogenerated HTML docs for v1.5.0-rc1-g936f3
Diffstat (limited to 'git-commit.html')
-rw-r--r--git-commit.html7
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/git-commit.html b/git-commit.html
index efc284477..b96d40abe 100644
--- a/git-commit.html
+++ b/git-commit.html
@@ -548,6 +548,11 @@ refuses to run when given pathnames (but see <tt>-i</tt> option).</p>
</div>
<h2>DISCUSSION</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
+<p>Though not required, it'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>
<p>At the core level, git is character encoding agnostic.</p>
<ul>
<li>
@@ -651,7 +656,7 @@ Junio C Hamano &lt;junkio@cox.net&gt;</p>
</div>
<div id="footer">
<div id="footer-text">
-Last updated 17-Jan-2007 05:40:13 UTC
+Last updated 17-Jan-2007 07:24:19 UTC
</div>
</div>
</body>