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authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2012-01-13 09:42:05 -0800
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2012-01-13 09:42:05 -0800
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@@ -604,14 +604,32 @@ command directly. See <a href="git-am.html">git-am(1)</a> instead.</p></div>
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
- Usually the program <em>cleans up</em> the Subject: header line
- to extract the title line for the commit log message,
- among which (1) remove <em>Re:</em> or <em>re:</em>, (2) leading
- whitespaces, (3) <em>[</em> up to <em>]</em>, typically <em>[PATCH]</em>, and
- then prepends "[PATCH] ". This flag forbids this
- munging, and is most useful when used to read back
- <em>git format-patch -k</em> output.
+ Usually the program removes email cruft from the Subject:
+ header line to extract the title line for the commit log
+ message. This option prevents this munging, and is most
+ useful when used to read back <em>git format-patch -k</em> output.
</p>
+<div class="paragraph"><p>Specifically, the following are removed until none of them remain:</p></div>
+<div class="ulist"><ul>
+<li>
+<p>
+Leading and trailing whitespace.
+</p>
+</li>
+<li>
+<p>
+Leading <tt>Re:</tt>, <tt>re:</tt>, and <tt>:</tt>.
+</p>
+</li>
+<li>
+<p>
+Leading bracketed strings (between <tt>[</tt> and <tt>]</tt>, usually
+ <tt>[PATCH]</tt>).
+</p>
+</li>
+</ul></div>
+<div class="paragraph"><p>Finally, runs of whitespace are normalized to a single ASCII space
+character.</p></div>
</dd>
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-b
@@ -708,7 +726,7 @@ beginning of the proposed commit log message with a scissors line.</p></div>
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-Last updated 2011-11-15 13:45:02 PDT
+Last updated 2012-01-13 09:41:44 PDT
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