From 82553cbb08b791aa0bed920ee58494268c0f579f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Rast Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 21:13:42 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] mailinfo documentation: accurately describe non -k case Since its very first description of -k, the documentation for git-mailinfo claimed that (in the case without -k) after cleaning up bracketed strings [blah], it would insert [PATCH]. It doesn't; on the contrary, one of the important jobs of mailinfo is to remove those strings. Since we're already there, rewrite the paragraph to give a complete enumeration of all the transformations. Specifically, it was missing the whitespace normalization (run of isspace(c) -> ' ') and the removal of leading ':'. Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt | 25 ++++++++++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt b/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt index ed45662cc..36d040020 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt @@ -24,13 +24,24 @@ command directly. See linkgit:git-am[1] instead. OPTIONS ------- -k:: - Usually the program 'cleans up' the Subject: header line - to extract the title line for the commit log message, - among which (1) remove 'Re:' or 're:', (2) leading - 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. + Usually the program removes email cruft from the Subject: + header line to extract the title line for the commit log + message. This option prevents this munging, and is most + useful when used to read back 'git format-patch -k' output. ++ +Specifically, the following are removed until none of them remain: ++ +-- +* Leading and trailing whitespace. + +* Leading `Re:`, `re:`, and `:`. + +* Leading bracketed strings (between `[` and `]`, usually + `[PATCH]`). +-- ++ +Finally, runs of whitespace are normalized to a single ASCII space +character. -b:: When -k is not in effect, all leading strings bracketed with '[' -- 2.30.2