On Mon, Oct 31, 2022 at 09:13:56PM +0800, Teng Long wrote: > Taylor Blau <me@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > --- >8 --- > > What does ">8" means? > > It's like a Github internal patch between the ">8" > and "<8" marks, right? They are scissor marks. Tools like 'git am -c' will trim everything before a scissors line when applying patches. I used them to deliniate between the patch contents (which can be applied) and the rest of my mail here (which can't). > > For the general case of what ships in git.git, I *do* find this warning > > ... > > "ships in git.git" means as the git developers, right? Kind of, but not entirely. I meant "what is in Junio's tree": so, what gets bundled by package maintainer, as well as the source that Git developer build from. Thanks, Taylor