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authorLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2016-01-20 11:43:30 -0800
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2016-01-20 11:43:30 -0800
commit108cb77c868b541bb9bee43e9bfe9310827e1eb7 (patch)
tree4baaf7b0f3674681a5e6ca5804e14afab9cc33d9 /Documentation
parentMerge branch 'dw/signoff-doc' (diff)
parentfor-each-ref: document `creatordate` and `creator` fields (diff)
downloadtgif-108cb77c868b541bb9bee43e9bfe9310827e1eb7.tar.xz
Merge branch 'ew/for-each-ref-doc'
* ew/for-each-ref-doc: for-each-ref: document `creatordate` and `creator` fields
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt9
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt b/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt
index c6f073cea4..06208c4990 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt
@@ -142,6 +142,11 @@ In addition to the above, for commit and tag objects, the header
field names (`tree`, `parent`, `object`, `type`, and `tag`) can
be used to specify the value in the header field.
+For commit and tag objects, the special `creatordate` and `creator`
+fields will correspond to the appropriate date or name-email-date tuple
+from the `committer` or `tagger` fields depending on the object type.
+These are intended for working on a mix of annotated and lightweight tags.
+
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.
@@ -153,8 +158,8 @@ 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`.
-For sorting purposes, fields with numeric values sort in numeric
-order (`objectsize`, `authordate`, `committerdate`, `taggerdate`).
+For sorting purposes, fields with numeric values sort in numeric order
+(`objectsize`, `authordate`, `committerdate`, `creatordate`, `taggerdate`).
All other fields are used to sort in their byte-value order.
There is also an option to sort by versions, this can be done by using