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>
Emma Brooks committed
Apr 16, 2020 at 04:16 UTC
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Documentation/pretty-formats.txt
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@@ -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