From 4ee4b998378edf224dbd955145604740cbfbb427 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org>
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2015 15:01:40 +0200
Subject: doc: Document scissor line for commit logs

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---
 doc/HACKING | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/HACKING b/doc/HACKING
index f60f15d8c..fe33d99ba 100644
--- a/doc/HACKING
+++ b/doc/HACKING
@@ -44,6 +44,17 @@ Fix type in a comment
 The marker line here is important; without it the first line would
 appear in the ChangeLog.
 
+If you exceptionally need to have longer lines in a commit log you may
+do this after this scissor line:
+#+begin_example
+# ------------------------ >8 ------------------------
+#+end_example
+(hash, blank, 24 dashes, blank, scissor, blank, 24 dashes).
+Note that such a comment will be removed if the git commit option
+=--cleanup=scissor= is used.
+
+
+
 ** License policy
 
   GnuPG is licensed under the GPLv3+ with some files under a mixed
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