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

On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 06:24:10PM -0800, Kevin Ballard wrote:

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

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(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.

Yep. I don't know if Junio actually uses --scissors these days. Before
it existed, he would just snip the parts above the marker manually,
which was not a big deal because he reads his mail in emacs. If that is
still the case, then it doesn't really matter what the marker is, as
long as he recognizes it, and it is not "---", which is the special
marker for splitting commit message from cover letter.

That being said, people other than Junio may apply your patch, so if you
are going to use such a marker, making it look scissor-like is probably
the best thing to do.

-Peff