On Nov 22, 2010, at 12:21 PM, Martin von Zweigbergk wrote: > (I hope this is the correct way of including a patch. I have only used > 'git send-email before'. I noticed that Jeff seems to remove the first > three lines and put a '-- 8> --' before, but others do not. What does > the mysterious header mean?) It's actually 8< or >8, and it's a little ASCII icon of a pair of scissors. If a line consists mainly of dashes and scissors then `git am --scissors` can split the mail on that line and treat the rest of the body after that line as a patch. -Kevin Ballard -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html