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authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2017-10-11 14:52:22 +0900
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2017-10-11 14:52:22 +0900
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Merge branch 'tb/show-trailers-in-ref-filter'
"git for-each-ref --format=..." learned a new format element, %(trailers), to show only the commit log trailer part of the log message. * tb/show-trailers-in-ref-filter: ref-filter.c: parse trailers arguments with %(contents) atom ref-filter.c: use trailer_opts to format trailers t6300: refactor %(trailers) tests doc: use "`<literal>`"-style quoting for literal strings doc: 'trailers' is the preferred way to format trailers t4205: unfold across multiple lines
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@@ -218,11 +218,15 @@ 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
+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`.
Additionally, the trailers as interpreted by linkgit:git-interpret-trailers[1]
-are obtained as 'contents:trailers'.
+are obtained as `trailers` (or by using the historical alias
+`contents:trailers`). Non-trailer lines from the trailer block can be omitted
+with `trailers:only`. Whitespace-continuations can be removed from trailers so
+that each trailer appears on a line by itself with its full content with
+`trailers:unfold`. Both can be used together as `trailers:unfold,only`.
For sorting purposes, fields with numeric values sort in numeric order
(`objectsize`, `authordate`, `committerdate`, `creatordate`, `taggerdate`).