Christian Couder <christian.couder@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Let's avoid a big dense paragraph by using an unordered > list for the %(contents:XXXX) format specifiers. > > While at it let's also make the following improvements: > > - Let's not describe %(contents) using "complete message" > as it's not clear what an incomplete message is. > > - Let's improve how the "subject" and "body" are > described. > > - Let's state that "signature" is only available for > tag objects. > > Suggested-by: Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt | 24 ++++++++++++++++++------ > 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) Looking good. Thanks. > diff --git a/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt b/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt > index 6dcd39f6f6..b739412c30 100644 > --- a/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt > +++ b/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt > @@ -232,12 +232,24 @@ Fields that have name-email-date tuple as its value (`author`, > `committer`, and `tagger`) can be suffixed with `name`, `email`, > and `date` to extract the named component. > > -The complete message in a commit and tag object is `contents`. > -Its first line is `contents:subject`, where subject is the concatenation > -of all lines of the commit message up to the first blank line. The next > -line is `contents:body`, where body is all of the lines after the first > -blank line. The optional GPG signature is `contents:signature`. The > -first `N` lines of the message is obtained using `contents:lines=N`. > +The message in a commit or a tag object is `contents`, from which > +`contents:<part>` can be used to extract various parts out of: > + > +contents:subject:: > + The first paragraph of the message, which typically is a > + single line, is taken as the "subject" of the commit or the > + tag message. > + > +contents:body:: > + The remainder of the commit or the tag message that follows > + the "subject". > + > +contents:signature:: > + The optional GPG signature of the tag. > + > +contents:lines=N:: > + The first `N` lines of the message. > + > Additionally, the trailers as interpreted by linkgit:git-interpret-trailers[1] > are obtained as `trailers` (or by using the historical alias > `contents:trailers`). Non-trailer lines from the trailer block can be omitted
