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authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2012-09-17 16:57:41 -0700
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2012-09-17 16:57:41 -0700
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@@ -695,9 +695,11 @@ them to the index, and commit, all in one step.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>A note on commit messages: Though not required, it&#8217;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></div>
+thorough description. 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, <a href="git-format-patch.html">git-format-patch(1)</a> turns a
+commit into email, and it uses the title on the Subject line and the
+rest of the commit in the body.</p></div>
</div>
<h2 id="_git_tracks_content_not_files">Git tracks content not files</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
@@ -1183,7 +1185,7 @@ digressions that may be interesting at this point are:</p></div>
<div id="footnotes"><hr /></div>
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-Last updated 2011-11-15 13:45:02 PDT
+Last updated 2012-09-17 16:55:59 PDT
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