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| author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2012-09-17 16:57:41 -0700 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2012-09-17 16:57:41 -0700 |
| commit | 281fd394a268e17e15f0869620a8f8fcaf28fbd1 (patch) | |
| tree | 2a23fd9bd63a0c0ab7ecd78e51be240177570fc3 /git-commit.txt | |
| parent | a3cfb7673d419cac3d57ad89e67537288d20696f (diff) | |
| download | git-htmldocs-281fd394a268e17e15f0869620a8f8fcaf28fbd1.tar.gz | |
Autogenerated HTML docs for v1.7.12-503-g59767
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diff --git a/git-commit.txt b/git-commit.txt index 4622297ec..9594ac8e9 100644 --- a/git-commit.txt +++ b/git-commit.txt @@ -389,8 +389,10 @@ DISCUSSION 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. +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, linkgit:git-format-patch[1] turns a commit into email, and it uses +the title on the Subject line and the rest of the commit in the body. include::i18n.txt[] |