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author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2022-09-09 15:08:29 -0700 |
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committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2022-09-09 15:08:29 -0700 |
commit | 80d588f33da8bcdfec5509ef613c45bb19607d36 (patch) | |
tree | 48c74671e09cc74d27ae10f131941f999027770c /git-interpret-trailers.txt | |
parent | c4f7799fb198cf50c4132036d5c9eb79184ee00b (diff) | |
download | git-htmldocs-80d588f33da8bcdfec5509ef613c45bb19607d36.tar.gz |
Autogenerated HTML docs for v2.37.3-542-gdd3f6
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diff --git a/git-interpret-trailers.txt b/git-interpret-trailers.txt index 956a01d18..6d6197cd0 100644 --- a/git-interpret-trailers.txt +++ b/git-interpret-trailers.txt @@ -60,10 +60,12 @@ non-whitespace lines before a line that starts with '---' (followed by a space or the end of the line). Such three minus signs start the patch part of the message. See also `--no-divider` below. -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. The value may be split over multiple lines with -each subsequent line starting with whitespace, like the "folding" in RFC 822. +When reading trailers, there can be no whitespace before or inside the +token, but any number of regular space and tab characters are allowed +between the token and the separator. There can be whitespaces before, +inside or after the value. The value may be split over multiple lines +with each subsequent line starting with at least one 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 |