[PATCH] Documentation: explain "mboxrd" pretty format

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The "mboxrd" pretty format was introduced in 9f23e04061 (pretty: support
"mboxrd" output format, 2016-06-05) but wasn't mentioned in the
documentation.

Signed-off-by: Emma Brooks <me@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 Documentation/pretty-formats.txt | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt b/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt
index a4b6f49186..547a552463 100644
--- a/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt
+++ b/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt
@@ -83,6 +83,12 @@ placeholders, its output is not affected by other options like
 
 	  <full commit message>
 
+* 'mboxrd'
++
+Like 'email', but lines in the commit message starting with "From "
+(preceded by zero or more ">") are quoted with ">" so they aren't
+confused as starting a new commit.
+
 * 'raw'
 +
 The 'raw' format shows the entire commit exactly as



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