From: Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] git-am.txt: reword extra headers in message body
Date: Sun, 3 May 2009 23:46:58 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1241419618-20304-4-git-send-email-bebarino@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1241419618-20304-3-git-send-email-bebarino@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com>
---
Documentation/git-am.txt | 8 ++++----
1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-am.txt b/Documentation/git-am.txt
index c141261..95e6089 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-am.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-am.txt
@@ -121,10 +121,10 @@ the commit, after stripping common prefix "[PATCH <anything>]".
The "Subject: " line is supposed to concisely describe what the
commit is about in one line of text.
-The body of the message (the rest of the message after the blank line
-that terminates the RFC2822 headers) can begin with "Subject: " and
-"From: " lines that are different from those of the mail header,
-to override the values of these fields.
+"From: " and "Subject: " lines starting the body (the rest of the
+message after the blank line terminating the RFC2822 headers)
+override the respective commit author name and title values taken
+from the headers.
The commit message is formed by the title taken from the
"Subject: ", a blank line and the body of the message up to
--
1.6.2.3
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-04 6:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-04 6:46 [PATCH 0/3] git-am documentation Stephen Boyd
2009-05-04 6:46 ` [PATCH 1/3] git-am.txt: add an 'a', say what 'it' is, simplify a sentence Stephen Boyd
2009-05-04 6:46 ` [PATCH 2/3] git-am.txt: Use date instead of time or timestamp Stephen Boyd
2009-05-04 6:46 ` Stephen Boyd [this message]
2009-05-04 7:15 ` Jeff King
2009-05-04 7:23 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-05-04 7:25 ` Jeff King
2009-05-04 11:43 ` [PATCH 1/3] git-am.txt: add an 'a', say what 'it' is, simplify a sentence Michael J Gruber
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