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| author | Paul Menzel <pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de> | 2020-01-03 16:05:46 +0100 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2020-01-04 15:12:39 -0800 |
| commit | f8740c586b2d39565a3f484debfa6d075f2ce5a0 (patch) | |
| tree | 660a4fda45b60d719ef06e64573d2b9cb2ebdbe0 /Documentation/git-am.txt | |
| parent | 53a06cf39b756eddfe4a2a34da93e3d04eb7b728 (diff) | |
| download | git-f8740c586b2d39565a3f484debfa6d075f2ce5a0.tar.gz | |
am: document that Date: can appear as an in-body header
Similar to "From:" and "Subject:" already mentioned in the
documentation, "Date:" can also appear as an in-body header
to override the value in the e-mail headers. Document it.
Signed-off-by: Paul Menzel <pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git-am.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-am.txt | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-am.txt b/Documentation/git-am.txt index fc3b993c33..57c4880f3a 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-am.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-am.txt @@ -190,8 +190,8 @@ the commit, after stripping common prefix "[PATCH <anything>]". The "Subject: " line is supposed to concisely describe what the commit is about in one line of text. -"From: " and "Subject: " lines starting the body override the respective -commit author name and title values taken from the headers. +"From: ", "Date: ", and "Subject: " lines starting the body override the +respective commit author name and title values taken from the headers. The commit message is formed by the title taken from the "Subject: ", a blank line and the body of the message up to |