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Re: [PATCH] docs/git-mailinfo: Mention the manual separator (---)

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W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us>
Date
Sep 30, 2014, 21:48 UTC
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On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 02:12:58PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> If we are extending the documentation on "---", …

Ah, I see that the --- are actually mentioned already in the DISCUSSION section of git-am(1) since 2499857b (git-am documentation: describe what is taken from where, 2007-03-24). I expected the docs to be either in git-mailinfo(1) (since the code added by f0658cf2 (restrict the patch filtering, 2007-03-12) is in mailinfo) or to match a grep for '---'. Maybe we should drop this patch in favor of notes in git-mailinfo(1) and git-format-patch(1) pointing folks at the DISCUSSION section in git-am(1) and a more easily grepable “three dashes ('---')" in gi-am(1)?

Cheers, Trevor

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