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authorVincent Ambo <mail@tazj.in>2020-11-21T18·20+0100
committerVincent Ambo <mail@tazj.in>2020-11-21T18·45+0100
commitf4609b896fac842433bd495c166d5987852a6a73 (patch)
tree95511c465c54c4f5d27e5d39ce187e2a1dd82bd3 /third_party/git/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt
parent082c006c04343a78d87b6c6ab3608c25d6213c3f (diff)
merge(3p/git): Merge git subtree at v2.29.2 r/1890
This also bumps the stable nixpkgs to 20.09 as of 2020-11-21, because
there is some breakage in the git build related to the netrc
credentials helper which someone has taken care of in nixpkgs.

The stable channel is not used for anything other than git, so this
should be fine.

Change-Id: I3575a19dab09e1e9556cf8231d717de9890484fb
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--- a/third_party/git/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt
+++ b/third_party/git/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt
@@ -72,10 +72,9 @@ conversion, even with this flag.
 	is useful in order to associate commits with mailing list discussions.
 
 --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
+	Remove everything in body before a scissors line (e.g. "-- >8 --").
+	The line represents scissors and perforation marks, and is used to
+	request the reader to cut the message at that line.  If that 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.