am/mailinfo: Disable scissors processing by default

[git.git] / Documentation / git-mailinfo.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt b/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt
index 8d95aaa30441c36a019e9d3d78ec451fbd40fdaf..823ab82b5e88c76d359db600b0d0f506758fca0c 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ git-mailinfo - Extracts patch and authorship from a single e-mail message
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
-'git mailinfo' [-k] [-u | --encoding=<encoding> | -n] <msg> <patch>
+'git mailinfo' [-k] [-u | --encoding=<encoding> | -n] [--scissors] <msg> <patch>
 
 
 DESCRIPTION
@@ -49,6 +49,20 @@ conversion, even with this flag.
 -n::
        Disable all charset re-coding of the metadata.
 
+--scissors::
+       Remove everything in body before a scissors line.  A line that
+       mainly consists of scissors (either ">8" or "8<") and perforation
+       (dash "-") marks is called a scissors line, and is used to request
+       the reader to cut the message at that line.  If such a line
+       appears in the body of the message before the patch, everything
+       before it (including the scissors line itself) is ignored when
+       this option is used.
++
+This is useful if you want to begin your message in a discussion thread
+with comments and suggestions on the message you are responding to, and to
+conclude it with a patch submission, separating the discussion and the
+beginning of the proposed commit log message with a scissors line.
+
 <msg>::
        The commit log message extracted from e-mail, usually
        except the title line which comes from e-mail Subject.