@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ OPTIONS
3232
3333-s::
3434--signoff::
35- Add `Signed-off-by:` line to the commit message, using
35+ Add a `Signed-off-by:` line to the commit message, using
3636 the committer identity of yourself.
3737
3838-k::
@@ -79,14 +79,14 @@ default. You can use `--no-utf8` to override this.
7979 message as the commit author date, and uses the time of
8080 commit creation as the committer date. This allows the
8181 user to lie about the committer date by using the same
82- timestamp as the author date.
82+ value as the author date.
8383
8484--ignore-date::
8585 By default the command records the date from the e-mail
8686 message as the commit author date, and uses the time of
8787 commit creation as the committer date. This allows the
88- user to lie about author timestamp by using the same
89- timestamp as the committer date.
88+ user to lie about the author date by using the same
89+ value as the committer date.
9090
9191--skip::
9292 Skip the current patch. This is only meaningful when
@@ -115,21 +115,21 @@ DISCUSSION
115115----------
116116
117117The commit author name is taken from the "From: " line of the
118- message, and commit author time is taken from the "Date: " line
118+ message, and commit author date is taken from the "Date: " line
119119of the message. The "Subject: " line is used as the title of
120120the commit, after stripping common prefix "[PATCH <anything>]".
121- It is supposed to describe what the commit is about concisely as
122- a one line text.
121+ The "Subject: " line is supposed to concisely describe what the
122+ commit is about in one line of text.
123123
124- The body of the message (the rest of the message after the blank line
125- that terminates the RFC2822 headers) can begin with "Subject: " and
126- "From: " lines that are different from those of the mail header,
127- to override the values of these fields .
124+ "From: " and "Subject: " lines starting the body (the rest of the
125+ message after the blank line terminating the RFC2822 headers)
126+ override the respective commit author name and title values taken
127+ from the headers .
128128
129129The commit message is formed by the title taken from the
130130"Subject: ", a blank line and the body of the message up to
131- where the patch begins. Excess whitespace characters at the end of the
132- lines are automatically stripped.
131+ where the patch begins. Excess whitespace at the end of each
132+ line is automatically stripped.
133133
134134The patch is expected to be inline, directly following the
135135message. Any line that is of the form:
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ message. Any line that is of the form:
141141is taken as the beginning of a patch, and the commit log message
142142is terminated before the first occurrence of such a line.
143143
144- When initially invoking it , you give it the names of the mailboxes
144+ When initially invoking `git am` , you give it the names of the mailboxes
145145to process. Upon seeing the first patch that does not apply, it
146146aborts in the middle. You can recover from this in one of two ways:
147147
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