[PATCH] Doc: note minimum scissors line length for mailinfo
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Evan Gates <evan.gates@gmail.com>
- Date
- Sep 25, 2020, 19:16 UTC
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- <20200925191659.31375-1-evan.gates@gmail.com>
There is a comment in is_scissors_line describing the requirements for a line to be considered a scissors line. While the existing wording covers most of the requirements, there was no mention of minimum size.
Signed-off-by: Evan Gates <evan.gates@gmail.com> --- This comes up after I tried to use --8<-- as scissors but git am didn't recognize it because it's only 6 bytes. I couldn't figure out why until I cloned git and checked the source.
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Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt | 10 +++++----- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt b/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt index 3bbc731f67..859829d32f 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt @@ -74,11 +74,11 @@ conversion, even with this flag. --scissors:: Remove everything in body before a scissors line. A line that mainly consists of scissors (either ">8" or "8<") and perforation - (dash "-") marks is called a scissors line, and is used to request - the reader to cut the message at that line. If such a line - appears in the body of the message before the patch, everything - before it (including the scissors line itself) is ignored when - this option is used. + (dash "-") marks and is at least 8 bytes long ("-- >8 --") is + called a scissors line, and is used to request the reader to cut + the message at that line. If such a line appears in the body + of the message before the patch, everything before it (including + the scissors line itself) is ignored when this option is used. + This is useful if you want to begin your message in a discussion thread with comments and suggestions on the message you are responding to, and to
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