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The explanation of the "scissors line" has been clarified. * eg/mailinfo-doc-scissors: Doc: show example scissors line
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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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