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Re: meaning of --8<--

From
Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Date
Jan 18, 2009, 16:13 UTC
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<200901181656.37813.markus.heidelberg@web.de>

On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@web.de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've seen lines like "--8<--" several times on this list, but have no
> clue what it is about.

It is supposed to represent a pair of scissors. Sometimes it is the other direction: >8. And I've seen folks botch it as: <8 or 8>. This list is the first (and maybe only?) place I've seen it. Typically you might see:

--snip--
or
--cut--
> But is this a common convention or git specific and handled by git-am?
Seems to be a convention of this list, and git-am does nothing with it afaik.
j.
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