Merge branch 'il/maint-xmallocz' into maint

diff --git a/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt b/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt
index 316bcc679628c47c9734e0906665ce5f6e8e68fb..b81ac98cf0d95ab961b228e514c8fdabc152a21e 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-mailinfo.txt
@@ -8,12 +8,12 @@ git-mailinfo - Extracts patch and authorship from a single e-mail message
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
-'git mailinfo' [-k] [-u | --encoding=<encoding> | -n] <msg> <patch>
+'git mailinfo' [-k|-b] [-u | --encoding=<encoding> | -n] [--scissors] <msg> <patch>
 
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
-Reading a single e-mail message from the standard input, and
+Reads a single e-mail message from the standard input, and
 writes the commit log message in <msg> file, and the patches in
 <patch> file.  The author name, e-mail and e-mail subject are
 written out to the standard output to be used by 'git-am'
@@ -32,6 +32,11 @@ OPTIONS
        munging, and is most useful when used to read back
        'git-format-patch -k' output.
 
+-b::
+       When -k is not in effect, all leading strings bracketed with '['
+       and ']' pairs are stripped.  This option limits the stripping to
+       only the pairs whose bracketed string contains the word "PATCH".
+
 -u::
        The commit log message, author name and author email are
        taken from the e-mail, and after minimally decoding MIME
@@ -49,6 +54,25 @@ conversion, even with this flag.
 -n::
        Disable all charset re-coding of the metadata.
 
+--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
+       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.
++
+This is useful if you want to begin your message in a discussion thread
+with comments and suggestions on the message you are responding to, and to
+conclude it with a patch submission, separating the discussion and the
+beginning of the proposed commit log message with a scissors line.
++
+This can enabled by default with the configuration option mailinfo.scissors.
+
+--no-scissors::
+       Ignore scissors lines. Useful for overriding mailinfo.scissors settings.
+
 <msg>::
        The commit log message extracted from e-mail, usually
        except the title line which comes from e-mail Subject.
@@ -60,7 +84,7 @@ conversion, even with this flag.
 Author
 ------
 Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> and
-Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
+Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
 
 
 Documentation