Re: [PATCH] Doc: note minimum scissors line length for mailinfo

> Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
> > It certainly was fun to declare that users can use anything that
> > look like perforation drawn on paper, and to pile more and more
> > heuristics to detect such a line.  But I think, instead of
> > describing all these details in the manual, telling the users to
> > always write "-- >8 --" and nothing else would be a better approach.
> >
> > It would save them time.
>
> Agreed, I think this is a much better direction.
>
> Another advantage is that it makes us easier to change the heuristics,
> confident that we are training users to aim for the simple and
> reliable case instead of the edge cases that may need to be tweaked
> over time.