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diff --git a/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt b/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt index c872b883ba..db55a4e0bb 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt @@ -102,9 +102,10 @@ Fields that have name-email-date tuple as its value (`author`, and `date` to extract the named component. The complete message in a commit and tag object is `contents`. -Its first line is `contents:subject`, the remaining lines -are `contents:body` and the optional GPG signature -is `contents:signature`. +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`. For sorting purposes, fields with numeric values sort in numeric order (`objectsize`, `authordate`, `committerdate`, `taggerdate`). |