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Doc: show example scissors line
The text tries to say the code accepts many variations that look remotely like scissors and perforation marks, but gives too little detail for users to decide what is and what is not taken as a scissors line for themselves. Instead of describing the heuristics more, just spell out what will always be accepted, namely "-- >8 --", as it would not help users to give them more choices and flexibility and be "creative" in their scissors line. Signed-off-by: Evan Gates <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[email protected]>
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is useful in order to associate commits with mailing list discussions.
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--scissors::
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Remove everything in body before a scissors line. A line that
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mainly consists of scissors (either ">8" or "8<") and perforation
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(dash "-") marks is called a scissors line, and is used to request
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the reader to cut the message at that line. If such a line
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Remove everything in body before a scissors line (e.g. "-- >8 --").
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The line represents scissors and perforation marks, and is used to
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request the reader to cut the message at that line. If that line
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appears in the body of the message before the patch, everything
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before it (including the scissors line itself) is ignored when
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this option is used.

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