From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Harris Subject: Re: meaning of --8<-- Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 11:04:37 -0500 Message-ID: References: <200901181656.37813.markus.heidelberg@web.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: markus.heidelberg@web.de X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Jan 18 17:11:52 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LOaFM-00012Z-KG for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sun, 18 Jan 2009 17:11:37 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755919AbZARQKN (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Jan 2009 11:10:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754756AbZARQKM (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Jan 2009 11:10:12 -0500 Received: from yx-out-2324.google.com ([74.125.44.30]:14219 "EHLO yx-out-2324.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754070AbZARQKL (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Jan 2009 11:10:11 -0500 Received: by yx-out-2324.google.com with SMTP id 8so1077426yxm.1 for ; Sun, 18 Jan 2009 08:10:10 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=LWzGjnv/G6gpaCO8TrjbLuZ2PzZkuPZxZpQQkfUGdtk=; b=NTaj8eiSHOXkj2D8i8Mf1Bnxp7D8hBYo5WuYzCOEI5O2hFMg+zjlvpbB/qDmjGMyl3 uq2d6NGfuk2SmBMY+6u7DlBsgTpYmpE1cXpJaDQghjtpv72dlnSIUKvjRRORnJq0F3TE fl4h0kwRXnqrjm54QDDlbJ2ohtow/4mdyGtfk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=mzIHQNIMrMKxg5RFpoFpnpqS0/M9aCJDNDwWDyUM4ZQNLrv4R5tclbpuMqx0Yth3y2 98NtPuT/ILRPkuxBCbBo5jvaXKs1evacq8SNuJBiE/cWGGplR9xSMHJWGSGv2SvA9LaO OP1aG1cfyun6Gd2XKZ0AENftoBwZ/Gav2dWhg= Received: by 10.65.133.12 with SMTP id k12mr2247182qbn.65.1232294678026; Sun, 18 Jan 2009 08:04:38 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <200901181656.37813.markus.heidelberg@web.de> X-Google-Sender-Auth: d7e0be083745e06f Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Markus Heidelberg wrote: > I've seen lines like "--8<--" several times on this list, but have no > clue what it is about. OK, seems like it's used to insert diffs in the > middle of a mail message. > But is this a common convention or git specific and handled by git-am? > Is it documented anywhere? Common convention, meaning 'cut here'. Perforated line ------ Scissors 8< Also used in print (although usually with picture of scissors instead of the ASCII-art). Peter Harris