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Message-ID: <48e9826d-3f60-a79a-779a-2296a89afad0@mev.co.uk>
Date:   Thu, 14 Jun 2018 12:08:53 +0100
From:   Ian Abbott <abbotti@....co.uk>
To:     Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
        Chris Opperman <eklikeroomys@...il.com>
Cc:     devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, Frank Mori Hess <fmh6jj@...il.com>,
        Simo Koskinen <koskisoft@...il.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] staging: comedi: Improved readability of function
 comedi_nsamples_left.

On 13/06/18 20:05, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 08:26:43PM +0200, Chris Opperman wrote:
>> Hi Dan/Ian,
>>
>> Noted your comments regarding additional text, thanks! Just curious whether
>> the "scissors" format given at the link below is valid?
>>
>> https://kernelnewbies.org/PatchTipsAndTricks
>>
>> It is given as an alternative to placing additional text below the
>> cut-off line.
>>
> 
> Try it yourself.  Save your email as email.txt and then
> `cat email.txt | git am` and then review the patch with git log -p.
> 
> I've seen people do the scissors thing, but I assume the maintainer has
> to hand edit the log which we refuse to do.

It can be done automatically with the git am -c or --scissors option, or 
by setting mailinfo.scissors to true in the git config.  But since the 
use of these special scissors lines is not documented in 
Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst, I don't think it is safe 
to assume that no manual intervention would be required by the 
maintainer to deal with it.

I wonder where the "scissors" advice on the kernelnewbies page came from?

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