Re: [PATCH] rebase -i: remove undocumented '--verify' flag

On Nov 22, 2010, at 12:21 PM, Martin von Zweigbergk wrote:

(I hope this is the correct way of including a patch. I have only used
'git send-email before'. I noticed that Jeff seems to remove the first
three lines and put a '-- 8> --' before, but others do not. What does
the mysterious header mean?)

It's actually 8< or >8, and it's a little ASCII icon of a pair of scissors.
If a line consists mainly of dashes and scissors then `git am --scissors`
can split the mail on that line and treat the rest of the body after that
line as a patch.

-Kevin Ballard