On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Markus Heidelberg wrote: > I've seen lines like "--8<--" several times on this list, but have no > clue what it is about. OK, seems like it's used to insert diffs in the > middle of a mail message. > But is this a common convention or git specific and handled by git-am? > Is it documented anywhere? Common convention, meaning 'cut here'. Perforated line ------ Scissors 8< Also used in print (although usually with picture of scissors instead of the ASCII-art). Peter Harris -- 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