Re: [PATCH] docs/git-mailinfo: Mention the manual separator (---)

2014-09-30 Thread Junio C Hamano
"W. Trevor King" writes: > ... Maybe we should drop this patch in favor of notes > in git-mailinfo(1) and git-format-patch(1) pointing folks at the > DISCUSSION section in git-am(1) and a more easily grepable “three > dashes ('---')" in gi-am(1)? I am all for dropping new changes and expecially

Re: [PATCH] docs/git-mailinfo: Mention the manual separator (---)

2014-09-30 Thread W. Trevor King
On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 02:12:58PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > If we are extending the documentation on "---", … Ah, I see that the --- are actually mentioned already in the DISCUSSION section of git-am(1) since 2499857b (git-am documentation: describe what is taken from where, 2007-03-24). I

Re: [PATCH] docs/git-mailinfo: Mention the manual separator (---)

2014-09-30 Thread Junio C Hamano
"W. Trevor King" writes: > And explain how it interacts with the scissors setting. > > Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King > --- > The three-dash limit comes from f0658cf2 (restrict the patch > filtering, 2007-03-12), but I couldn't find any associated > documentation. Since the effect is so similar

[PATCH] docs/git-mailinfo: Mention the manual separator (---)

2014-09-24 Thread W. Trevor King
And explain how it interacts with the scissors setting. Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King --- The three-dash limit comes from f0658cf2 (restrict the patch filtering, 2007-03-12), but I couldn't find any associated documentation. Since the effect is so similar to the scissors line, I thought about ad