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[PATCH] Documentation: Mention `Date: ` in git-am

From
PMPaul Menzel <pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de>
Date
Jan 3, 2020, 15:05 UTC
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Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2020 12:48:46 +0100

Tested, that a line `Date: ` in the message body will be preferred by `git am` over the one in the message header. So, update the documentation.

Signed-off-by: Paul Menzel <pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de>
---
 Documentation/git-am.txt | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-am.txt b/Documentation/git-am.txt
index fc5750b3b8..11ca61b00b 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-am.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-am.txt
@@ -190,8 +190,8 @@ the commit, after stripping common prefix "[PATCH <anything>]".
 The "Subject: " line is supposed to concisely describe what the
 commit is about in one line of text.
 
-"From: " and "Subject: " lines starting the body override the respective
-commit author name and title values taken from the headers.
+"From: ", "Date: ", and "Subject: " lines starting the body override the
+respective commit author name and title values taken from the headers.
 
 The commit message is formed by the title taken from the
 "Subject: ", a blank line and the body of the message up to
-- 
2.24.1
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