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@@ -150,7 +150,8 @@ 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
-blank line. Finally, the optional GPG signature is `contents:signature`.
+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`).