From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jonathan Nieder Subject: [PATCH 3/4] Documentation/notes: describe content of notes Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 18:42:29 -0500 Message-ID: <20100503234229.GC27483@progeny.tock> References: <20100503233604.GA27451@progeny.tock> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Thomas Rast , Johan Herland , Johannes Schindelin To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue May 04 01:42:34 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O95HT-000405-S3 for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Tue, 04 May 2010 01:42:32 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932208Ab0ECXmU (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 May 2010 19:42:20 -0400 Received: from mail-gw0-f46.google.com ([74.125.83.46]:49790 "EHLO mail-gw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932192Ab0ECXmR (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 May 2010 19:42:17 -0400 Received: by gwj19 with SMTP id 19so1467168gwj.19 for ; Mon, 03 May 2010 16:42:16 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:date:from:to:cc:subject :message-id:references:mime-version:content-type:content-disposition :in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=XzpBq5KlB26zQm1cRpFVxKkqlgnmgIgFpxXWINTqPOc=; b=Ezfd+11kaVYmbYzznycyciREJgxpz9HDE3euSrDHmFyX9jPdG4p3iLhOhYT3bidnFR eH7uFpG4Vl6JizIj0EfQ8ueivqgadcocf+sONsQ2Rmdr15pUf0YlH1usAu1c+STcxgG/ vyMmW/RQEvxBSxZJa4cLpA/mKNUI8+Sdwjvvw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; b=EL0n4I7njkaDOpQrfJCIH4Km2o9RSg6D7xB5gvGlAwo6YuCRIwaIwa7IaIGC2E45s4 oAnizL3pjqox9cW80/rLNvlA+NHg39DVawG7jmBgZoqmu8itCn5Cd8mtlUrTnSpUC4Ft jNwfz7fq5b7efvFAkvqKkl2s/dX0xXpDs9vPk= Received: by 10.90.5.34 with SMTP id 34mr2439740age.65.1272930136497; Mon, 03 May 2010 16:42:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from progeny.tock (c-98-212-3-231.hsd1.il.comcast.net [98.212.3.231]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 21sm4711431iwn.11.2010.05.03.16.42.15 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 03 May 2010 16:42:15 -0700 (PDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100503233604.GA27451@progeny.tock> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder --- Documentation/git-notes.txt | 4 ++++ 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-notes.txt b/Documentation/git-notes.txt index 0594776..273264b 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-notes.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-notes.txt @@ -27,6 +27,10 @@ By default, notes are saved to and read from `refs/notes/commits`, but this default can be overridden. See the CONFIGURATION and ENVIRONMENT sections below. +Notes can contain any sequence of non-null bytes. Since they are +sanitized with linkgit:git-stripspace[1], empty lines other than a +single line separating paragraphs are not significant. + A typical use of notes is to extend a commit message without having to change the commit itself. Such commit notes can be shown by `git log` along with the original commit message. To discern these notes from the -- 1.7.1