From: "Jay Soffian" <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
To: markus.heidelberg@web.de
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: meaning of --8<--
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 11:13:59 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <76718490901180813h4c226dadi87731ef3f46086bb@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200901181656.37813.markus.heidelberg@web.de>
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Markus Heidelberg
<markus.heidelberg@web.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've seen lines like "--8<--" several times on this list, but have no
> clue what it is about.
It is supposed to represent a pair of scissors. Sometimes it is the
other direction: >8. And I've seen folks botch it as: <8 or 8>. This
list is the first (and maybe only?) place I've seen it. Typically you
might see:
--snip--
or
--cut--
> But is this a common convention or git specific and handled by git-am?
Seems to be a convention of this list, and git-am does nothing with it afaik.
j.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-18 16:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-18 15:56 meaning of --8<-- Markus Heidelberg
2009-01-18 16:04 ` Peter Harris
2009-01-19 11:36 ` Samuel Tardieu
2009-01-18 16:13 ` Jay Soffian [this message]
2009-01-18 17:44 ` Jeff King
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