From: Emma Brooks <me@pluvano.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2020 04:16:59 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Documentation: explain "mboxrd" pretty format
X-Git-Tag: v2.27.0-rc0~82^2
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=88eaf361e04fe10a3ffd9f6af466a993e926b45e;p=thirdparty%2Fgit.git

Documentation: explain "mboxrd" pretty format

The "mboxrd" pretty format was introduced in 9f23e04061 (pretty: support
"mboxrd" output format, 2016-06-05) but wasn't mentioned in the
documentation.

Signed-off-by: Emma Brooks <me@pluvano.com>
Acked-by: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt b/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt
index a4b6f49186..547a552463 100644
--- a/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt
+++ b/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt
@@ -83,6 +83,12 @@ placeholders, its output is not affected by other options like
 
 	  <full commit message>
 
+* 'mboxrd'
++
+Like 'email', but lines in the commit message starting with "From "
+(preceded by zero or more ">") are quoted with ">" so they aren't
+confused as starting a new commit.
+
 * 'raw'
 +
 The 'raw' format shows the entire commit exactly as