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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-interpret-trailers.txt | 10 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-interpret-trailers.txt b/Documentation/git-interpret-trailers.txt index 956a01d184..6d6197cd0a 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-interpret-trailers.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-interpret-trailers.txt @@ -60,10 +60,12 @@ non-whitespace lines before a line that starts with '---' (followed by a space or the end of the line). Such three minus signs start the patch part of the message. See also `--no-divider` below. -When reading trailers, there can be whitespaces after the -token, the separator and the value. There can also be whitespaces -inside the token and the value. The value may be split over multiple lines with -each subsequent line starting with whitespace, like the "folding" in RFC 822. +When reading trailers, there can be no whitespace before or inside the +token, but any number of regular space and tab characters are allowed +between the token and the separator. There can be whitespaces before, +inside or after the value. The value may be split over multiple lines +with each subsequent line starting with at least one whitespace, like +the "folding" in RFC 822. Note that 'trailers' do not follow and are not intended to follow many rules for RFC 822 headers. For example they do not follow |