From: Paul Menzel <pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] Documentation: Mention `Date: ` in git-am
Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2020 16:05:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6ffcb6c0-d09e-45c4-d264-8a9024b67f3c@molgen.mpg.de> (raw)
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Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2020 12:48:46 +0100
Tested, that a line `Date: ` in the message body will be preferred by
`git am` over the one in the message header. So, update the
documentation.
Signed-off-by: Paul Menzel <pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de>
---
Documentation/git-am.txt | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-am.txt b/Documentation/git-am.txt
index fc5750b3b8..11ca61b00b 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-am.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-am.txt
@@ -190,8 +190,8 @@ the commit, after stripping common prefix "[PATCH <anything>]".
The "Subject: " line is supposed to concisely describe what the
commit is about in one line of text.
-"From: " and "Subject: " lines starting the body override the respective
-commit author name and title values taken from the headers.
+"From: ", "Date: ", and "Subject: " lines starting the body override the
+respective commit author name and title values taken from the headers.
The commit message is formed by the title taken from the
"Subject: ", a blank line and the body of the message up to
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2020-01-03 15:05 Paul Menzel [this message]
2020-01-04 3:33 ` [PATCH] Documentation: Mention `Date: ` in git-am Junio C Hamano
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