[PATCH 3/4] Documentation/notes: describe content of notes
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
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Documentation/git-notes.txt | 4 ++++
1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-notes.txt b/Documentation/git-notes.txt
index 0594776..273264b 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-notes.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-notes.txt
@@ -27,6 +27,10 @@ By default, notes are saved to and read from `refs/notes/commits`, but
this default can be overridden. See the CONFIGURATION and ENVIRONMENT
sections below.
+Notes can contain any sequence of non-null bytes. Since they are
+sanitized with linkgit:git-stripspace[1], empty lines other than a
+single line separating paragraphs are not significant.
+
A typical use of notes is to extend a commit message without having
to change the commit itself. Such commit notes can be shown by `git log`
along with the original commit message. To discern these notes from the
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1.7.1
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>