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From: "Jay Soffian" <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: meaning of --8<--
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 11:13:59 -0500
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On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Markus Heidelberg
<markus.heidelberg@web.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've seen lines like "--8<--" several times on this list, but have no
> clue what it is about.

It is supposed to represent a pair of scissors. Sometimes it is the
other direction: >8. And I've seen folks botch it as: <8 or 8>. This
list is the first (and maybe only?) place I've seen it. Typically you
might see:

--snip--

or

--cut--

> But is this a common convention or git specific and handled by git-am?

Seems to be a convention of this list, and git-am does nothing with it afaik.

j.