Mentioning the comment syntax and blank line support first is in line
with how "git help config" describes its format. See
b8936cf060 (config.txt grammar, typo, and asciidoc fixes, 2006-06-08)
for the paragraph I'm copying & amending from its documentation.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <redacted>
---
Documentation/gitmailmap.txt | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/gitmailmap.txt b/Documentation/gitmailmap.txt
index e75eadde63..4e4677018b 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitmailmap.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitmailmap.txt
@@ -23,6 +23,9 @@ canonical real names and email addresses.
SYNTAX
------
+The '#' character begins a comment to the end of line, blank lines
+are ignored.
+
In the simple form, each line in the file consists of the canonical
real name of an author, whitespace, and an email address used in the
commit (enclosed by '<' and '>') to map to the name. For example:
@@ -94,8 +97,6 @@ Other Author <other@author.xx> <nick2@company.xx>
Santa Claus <santa.claus@northpole.xx> <me@company.xx>
------------
-Use hash '#' for comments that are either on their own line, or after
-the email address.
SEE ALSO
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