git/list[1] front-page[2] threads[3] people[4] search[5] about
 

[PATCH] Change the signature start string to "-- \n"

From
Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>
Date
Feb 17, 2006, 02:25 UTC
Message-ID
<20060217022502.13103.4332.stgit@backpacker.hemma.treskal.com>

Change the signature start string from "--\n" to "-- \n" in the cover mail template, as recommended in Mutt's manual:

    It is *strongly* recommended that you not unset this variable
    [from its default value of "-- \n"] unless your "signature"
    contains just your name. The reason for this is because many
    software packages use "-- \n" to detect your signature. For
    example, Mutt has the ability to highlight the signature in a
    different color in the builtin pager.
Signed-off-by: Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>
---
 templates/covermail.tmpl |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/templates/covermail.tmpl b/templates/covermail.tmpl
index 9789c9c..44cd19e 100644
--- a/templates/covermail.tmpl
+++ b/templates/covermail.tmpl
@@ -4,5 +4,5 @@ Date: %(date)s
 %(endofheaders)s
 The following series implements...
 
---
+-- 
 Signature
Message 1 of 1 in “Change the signature start string to "-- \n"”
  1. Change the signature start string to "-- \n"Karl Hasselström, Feb 17, 2006

Read the whole thread, see it on lore, or plain text.

$ cat FOOTERMessages come from the public archive at lore.kernel.org/git, fetched every hour. The front page is chosen and written each morning by an AI editor and can be wrong; the threads themselves are the record. About and API. For agents: an MCP server at https://gitlist.dev/mcp, and any thread, story or person page as Markdown by adding .md to its URL (or sending Accept: text/markdown). Details in /llms.txt.