From: Linus Arver <linusa@xxxxxxxxxx> Be more up-front about what trailers are in practice with examples, to give the reader a visual cue while they go on to read the rest of the description. Also add an example for multiline values. Signed-off-by: Linus Arver <linusa@xxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/git-interpret-trailers.txt | 20 ++++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-interpret-trailers.txt b/Documentation/git-interpret-trailers.txt index 2e92640543c..2e999320ec6 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-interpret-trailers.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-interpret-trailers.txt @@ -16,7 +16,18 @@ DESCRIPTION ----------- Add or parse 'trailer' lines that look similar to RFC 822 e-mail headers, at the end of the otherwise free-form part of a commit -message. +message. For example, in the following commit message + +------------------------------------------------ +subject + +Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. + +Signed-off-by: Alice <alice@xxxxxxxxxxx> +Signed-off-by: Bob <bob@xxxxxxxxxxx> +------------------------------------------------ + +the last two lines starting with "Signed-off-by" are trailers. This command reads commit messages from either the <file> arguments or the standard input if no <file> is specified. @@ -71,7 +82,12 @@ When reading trailers, there can be no whitespace before or inside the 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. +the "folding" in RFC 822. Example: + +------------------------------------------------ +token: This is a very long value, with spaces and + newlines in it. +------------------------------------------------ Note that trailers do not follow (nor are they intended to follow) many of the rules for RFC 822 headers. For example they do not follow the encoding rule. -- gitgitgadget
