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| author | Linus Arver <linusa@google.com> | 2023-09-07 22:20:07 +0000 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2023-09-07 23:04:44 -0700 |
| commit | db97296122b8cfb14cd166124d3e933df64c9a78 (patch) | |
| tree | a3fe1648974e752a9a7c7ebd15f82d70a342f242 /Documentation/git-interpret-trailers.txt | |
| parent | 289a0b244722b69c25ec872a14518acd85f54e75 (diff) | |
| download | git-db97296122b8cfb14cd166124d3e933df64c9a78.tar.gz | |
trailer doc: emphasize the effect of configuration variables
The sentence does not mention the effect of configuration variables at
all, when they are actively used by default (unless --parse is
specified) to potentially add new trailers, without the user having to
always supply --trailer manually.
Signed-off-by: Linus Arver <linusa@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git-interpret-trailers.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-interpret-trailers.txt | 9 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-interpret-trailers.txt b/Documentation/git-interpret-trailers.txt index 62ba2b1232..a288ff111c 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-interpret-trailers.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-interpret-trailers.txt @@ -34,9 +34,12 @@ This command reads commit messages from either the If `--parse` is specified, the output consists of the parsed trailers coming from the input, without influencing them with any command line options or configuration variables. -Otherwise, this command applies the arguments passed using the -`--trailer` option, if any, to each input file. The result is emitted on the -standard output. + +Otherwise, this command applies `trailer.*` configuration variables +(which could potentially add new trailers, as well as reposition them), +as well as any command line arguments that can override configuration +variables (such as `--trailer=...` which could also add new trailers), +to each input file. The result is emitted on the standard output. This command can also operate on the output of linkgit:git-format-patch[1], which is more elaborate than a plain commit message. Namely, such output |