message as the commit author date, and uses the time of
commit creation as the committer date. This allows the
user to lie about the committer date by using the same
- timestamp as the author date.
+ value as the author date.
--ignore-date::
By default the command records the date from the e-mail
message as the commit author date, and uses the time of
commit creation as the committer date. This allows the
- user to lie about author timestamp by using the same
- timestamp as the committer date.
+ user to lie about the author date by using the same
+ value as the committer date.
--skip::
Skip the current patch. This is only meaningful when
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The commit author name is taken from the "From: " line of the
-message, and commit author time is taken from the "Date: " line
+message, and commit author date is taken from the "Date: " line
of the message. The "Subject: " line is used as the title of
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.
-The body of the message (the rest of the message after the blank line
-that terminates the RFC2822 headers) can begin with "Subject: " and
-"From: " lines that are different from those of the mail header,
-to override the values of these fields.
+"From: " and "Subject: " lines starting the body (the rest of the
+message after the blank line terminating the RFC2822 headers)
+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