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From: Emma Brooks <me@pluvano.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>, Emma Brooks <me@pluvano.com>
Subject: [PATCH] Documentation: explain "mboxrd" pretty format
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2020 04:16:59 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200416041658.85100-1-me@pluvano.com> (raw)

The "mboxrd" pretty format was introduced in 9f23e04061 (pretty: support
"mboxrd" output format, 2016-06-05) but wasn't mentioned in the
documentation.

Signed-off-by: Emma Brooks <me@pluvano.com>
---
 Documentation/pretty-formats.txt | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt b/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt
index a4b6f49186..547a552463 100644
--- a/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt
+++ b/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt
@@ -83,6 +83,12 @@ placeholders, its output is not affected by other options like
 
 	  <full commit message>
 
+* 'mboxrd'
++
+Like 'email', but lines in the commit message starting with "From "
+(preceded by zero or more ">") are quoted with ">" so they aren't
+confused as starting a new commit.
+
 * 'raw'
 +
 The 'raw' format shows the entire commit exactly as

             reply	other threads:[~2020-04-16  4:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-16  4:16 Emma Brooks [this message]
2020-04-16  4:44 ` [PATCH] Documentation: explain "mboxrd" pretty format Eric Wong
2020-04-16  5:03 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-04-17  1:47   ` Emma Brooks
2020-04-17  2:00     ` Junio C Hamano

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