From: Evan Gates <evan.gates@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] Doc: note minimum scissors line length for mailinfo
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2020 12:16:59 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200925191659.31375-1-evan.gates@gmail.com> (raw)
There is a comment in is_scissors_line describing the requirements for
a line to be considered a scissors line. While the existing wording
covers most of the requirements, there was no mention of minimum size.
Signed-off-by: Evan Gates <evan.gates@gmail.com>
---
This comes up after I tried to use --8<-- as scissors but git am didn't
recognize it because it's only 6 bytes. I couldn't figure out why until
I cloned git and checked the source.
I am not subscribed to the list, please cc me in any replies.
Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt | 10 +++++-----
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt b/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt
index 3bbc731f67..859829d32f 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt
@@ -74,11 +74,11 @@ conversion, even with this flag.
--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.
+ (dash "-") marks and is at least 8 bytes long ("-- >8 --") 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
--
2.28.0
next reply other threads:[~2020-09-25 20:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-25 19:16 Evan Gates [this message]
2020-09-28 18:35 ` [PATCH] Doc: note minimum scissors line length for mailinfo jrnieder
2020-09-28 18:55 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-09-28 19:00 ` Jonathan Nieder
2020-09-28 19:20 ` Evan Gates
2020-09-28 19:33 ` Kevin Daudt
2020-09-28 20:20 ` [PATCH v2] Doc: specify exact scissors line Evan Gates
2020-09-28 22:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-09-28 22:51 ` [PATCH v3] Doc: show example " Evan Gates
2020-09-28 23:41 ` Junio C Hamano
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