There is a comment in is_scissors_line describing the requirements for
a line to be considered a scissors line. While the existing wording
covers most of the requirements, there was no mention of minimum size.
Signed-off-by: Evan Gates <evan.gates@xxxxxxxxx>
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This comes up after I tried to use --8<-- as scissors but git am didn't
recognize it because it's only 6 bytes. I couldn't figure out why until
I cloned git and checked the source.
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Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt | 10 +++++-----
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt b/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt
index 3bbc731f67..859829d32f 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt
@@ -74,11 +74,11 @@ conversion, even with this flag.
--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.
+ (dash "-") marks and is at least 8 bytes long ("-- >8 --") 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
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