From f8740c586b2d39565a3f484debfa6d075f2ce5a0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Menzel Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2020 16:05:46 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] 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 Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/git-am.txt | 4 ++-- 1 file 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 ]". 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