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| author | Junio C Hamano <junio@hera.kernel.org> | 2009-09-08 00:55:23 +0000 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <junio@hera.kernel.org> | 2009-09-08 00:55:23 +0000 |
| commit | c28068f42827f92c7c73c184e4fd11ceba0c73da (patch) | |
| tree | 2ea9bf073e1f773ca1fcfb8bf76ec28ead3687e4 /git-mailinfo.txt | |
| parent | 35b47ca5285a4059792ba937f8e09b2ab4a7adf4 (diff) | |
| download | git-htmldocs-c28068f42827f92c7c73c184e4fd11ceba0c73da.tar.gz | |
Autogenerated HTML docs for v1.6.5-rc0
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1 files changed, 15 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/git-mailinfo.txt b/git-mailinfo.txt index 8d95aaa30..823ab82b5 100644 --- a/git-mailinfo.txt +++ b/git-mailinfo.txt @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ git-mailinfo - Extracts patch and authorship from a single e-mail message SYNOPSIS -------- -'git mailinfo' [-k] [-u | --encoding=<encoding> | -n] <msg> <patch> +'git mailinfo' [-k] [-u | --encoding=<encoding> | -n] [--scissors] <msg> <patch> DESCRIPTION @@ -49,6 +49,20 @@ conversion, even with this flag. -n:: Disable all charset re-coding of the metadata. +--scissors:: + Remove everything in body before a scissors line. A line that + mainly consists of scissors (either ">8" or "8<") and perforation + (dash "-") marks is called a scissors line, and is used to request + the reader to cut the message at that line. If such a line + appears in the body of the message before the patch, everything + before it (including the scissors line itself) is ignored when + this option is used. ++ +This is useful if you want to begin your message in a discussion thread +with comments and suggestions on the message you are responding to, and to +conclude it with a patch submission, separating the discussion and the +beginning of the proposed commit log message with a scissors line. + <msg>:: The commit log message extracted from e-mail, usually except the title line which comes from e-mail Subject. |