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diff --git a/git-for-each-ref.txt b/git-for-each-ref.txt index be9543f68..3a9ad91b7 100644 --- a/git-for-each-ref.txt +++ b/git-for-each-ref.txt @@ -359,9 +359,11 @@ In any case, a field name that refers to a field inapplicable to the object referred by the ref does not cause an error. It returns an empty string instead. -As a special case for the date-type fields, you may specify a format for -the date by adding `:` followed by date format name (see the -values the `--date` option to linkgit:git-rev-list[1] takes). +As a special case for the date-type fields, you may specify a format for the +date by adding `:` followed by date format name (see the values the `--date` +option to linkgit:git-rev-list[1] takes). If this formatting is provided in +a `--sort` key, references will be sorted according to the byte-value of the +formatted string rather than the numeric value of the underlying timestamp. Some atoms like %(align) and %(if) always require a matching %(end). We call them "opening atoms" and sometimes denote them as %($open). |