Merge branch 'maint-1.6.6' into maint

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

diff --git a/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt b/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt
index d800aea0c113bc88c076fd08f6e8f01dbc38b9e6..e3d58cbac3f162cc01d8731485f220fd70fed17b 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|-b] [-u | --encoding=<encoding> | -n] <msg> <patch>
+'git mailinfo' [-k|-b] [-u | --encoding=<encoding> | -n] [--scissors] <msg> <patch>
 
 
 DESCRIPTION
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ DESCRIPTION
 Reads a single e-mail message from the standard input, and
 writes the commit log message in <msg> file, and the patches in
 <patch> file.  The author name, e-mail and e-mail subject are
-written out to the standard output to be used by 'git-am'
+written out to the standard output to be used by 'git am'
 to create a commit.  It is usually not necessary to use this
 command directly.  See linkgit:git-am[1] instead.
 
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ OPTIONS
        whitespaces, (3) '[' up to ']', typically '[PATCH]', and
        then prepends "[PATCH] ".  This flag forbids this
        munging, and is most useful when used to read back
-       'git-format-patch -k' output.
+       'git format-patch -k' output.
 
 -b::
        When -k is not in effect, all leading strings bracketed with '['
@@ -54,6 +54,25 @@ 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.
++
+This can enabled by default with the configuration option mailinfo.scissors.
+
+--no-scissors::
+       Ignore scissors lines. Useful for overriding mailinfo.scissors settings.
+
 <msg>::
        The commit log message extracted from e-mail, usually
        except the title line which comes from e-mail Subject.