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@@ -235,6 +235,15 @@ and `date` to extract the named component. For email fields (`authoremail`,
without angle brackets, and `:localpart` to get the part before the `@` symbol
out of the trimmed email.
+The raw data in an object is `raw`.
+
+raw:size::
+ The raw data size of the object.
+
+Note that `--format=%(raw)` can not be used with `--python`, `--shell`, `--tcl`,
+because such language may not support arbitrary binary data in their string
+variable type.
+
The message in a commit or a tag object is `contents`, from which
`contents:<part>` can be used to extract various parts out of:
@@ -260,11 +269,9 @@ contents:lines=N::
The first `N` lines of the message.
Additionally, the trailers as interpreted by linkgit:git-interpret-trailers[1]
-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`.
+are obtained as `trailers[:options]` (or by using the historical alias
+`contents:trailers[:options]`). For valid [:option] values see `trailers`
+section of linkgit:git-log[1].
For sorting purposes, fields with numeric values sort in numeric order
(`objectsize`, `authordate`, `committerdate`, `creatordate`, `taggerdate`).