On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@xxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > I've seen lines like "--8<--" several times on this list, but have no > clue what it is about. It is supposed to represent a pair of scissors. Sometimes it is the other direction: >8. And I've seen folks botch it as: <8 or 8>. This list is the first (and maybe only?) place I've seen it. Typically you might see: --snip-- or --cut-- > But is this a common convention or git specific and handled by git-am? Seems to be a convention of this list, and git-am does nothing with it afaik. j. -- 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