[PATCH] Re: Teach mailinfo to ignore everything before -- >8 -- mark

( Paste error, sorry. )

The 24/08/09, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote:

[ Please, please, please, wrap your lines. ]

The 24/08/09, Nanako Shiraishi wrote:

quoted

Looking at the way other people use the mark in their messages, I think this explanation isn't correct.

I'd say that should not document what people do but what the program
does.

quoted

A scissors mark doesn't have to be at the beginning. The line has to contain the mark, and it has to consist of only the mark, '-' minus, the phrase "cut here", and whitespaces.

...and (">8" or "<8"), you're right. But isn't the following mark a bit
too much permissive?

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Subject: [PATCH] squashme to 925bd84 (Teach mailinfo to ignore everything before -- >8 -- mark, 2009-08-23)

---
 Documentation/git-am.txt |    6 ++++++
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-am.txt b/Documentation/git-am.txt
index fcacc94..5294d47 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-am.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-am.txt

@@ -138,6 +138,12 @@ The commit message is formed by the title taken

from the
 where the patch begins.  Excess whitespace at the end of each
 line is automatically stripped.
 
+If a line contains a mark in the body of the message, everything
+before (and the line itself) will be ignored.  A mark has typically
+the form "-- >8 -- cut here -- >8 --".  Strictly speacking, it must
+have one dash at least and a ">8" (or "<8").  Spaces and strings
+"cut here" are permited.
+
 The patch is expected to be inline, directly following the
 message.  Any line that is of the form:
 
-- 
Nicolas Sebrecht