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From: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
To: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Cc: <git@vger.kernel.org>, Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>,
	Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] Documentation/notes: describe content of notes
Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 11:28:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201005041128.47879.trast@student.ethz.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100503234229.GC27483@progeny.tock>

Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> +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.

It even goes slightly further: create_note() calls stripspace() with
the skip_comments option enabled, so comment lines are also removed.
('git notes add' actually puts `git show --stat` in a big comment
block...)

-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch

  reply	other threads:[~2010-05-04  9:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-03 23:36 [PATCH 0/4] Documentation/notes: fill out the man page a little Jonathan Nieder
2010-05-03 23:41 ` [PATCH 1/4] Documentation/notes: describe effect of environment and configuration Jonathan Nieder
2010-05-04  9:24   ` Thomas Rast
2010-05-03 23:42 ` [PATCH 2/4] Documentation/notes: adjust description to use configuration section Jonathan Nieder
2010-05-03 23:42 ` [PATCH 3/4] Documentation/notes: describe content of notes Jonathan Nieder
2010-05-04  9:28   ` Thomas Rast [this message]
2010-05-04  9:55   ` Johan Herland
2010-05-05  3:23     ` Jeff King
2010-05-03 23:47 ` [PATCH 4/4] Documentation/notes: nitpicks Jonathan Nieder
2010-05-04  7:09   ` Thomas Rast
2010-05-04  7:23     ` Jonathan Nieder

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