From: Jonathan Nieder Date: Mon, 03 May 2010 23:42:29 GMT Subject: [PATCH 3/4] Documentation/notes: describe content of notes Message-ID: <20100503234229.GC27483@progeny.tock> In-Reply-To: <20100503233604.GA27451@progeny.tock> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder --- 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 -- 1.7.1