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diff --git a/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt b/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt index c6f073cea4..012e8f9a08 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt @@ -92,7 +92,11 @@ refname:: The name of the ref (the part after $GIT_DIR/). For a non-ambiguous short name of the ref append `:short`. The option core.warnAmbiguousRefs is used to select the strict - abbreviation mode. + abbreviation mode. If `strip=<N>` is appended, strips `<N>` + slash-separated path components from the front of the refname + (e.g., `%(refname:strip=2)` turns `refs/tags/foo` into `foo`. + `<N>` must be a positive integer. If a displayed ref has fewer + components than `<N>`, the command aborts with an error. objecttype:: The type of the object (`blob`, `tree`, `commit`, `tag`). @@ -129,19 +133,28 @@ color:: align:: Left-, middle-, or right-align the content between - %(align:...) and %(end). The "align:" is followed by `<width>` - and `<position>` in any order separated by a comma, where the - `<position>` is either left, right or middle, default being - left and `<width>` is the total length of the content with - alignment. If the contents length is more than the width then - no alignment is performed. If used with '--quote' everything - in between %(align:...) and %(end) is quoted, but if nested - then only the topmost level performs quoting. + %(align:...) and %(end). The "align:" is followed by + `width=<width>` and `position=<position>` in any order + separated by a comma, where the `<position>` is either left, + right or middle, default being left and `<width>` is the total + length of the content with alignment. For brevity, the + "width=" and/or "position=" prefixes may be omitted, and bare + <width> and <position> used instead. For instance, + `%(align:<width>,<position>)`. If the contents length is more + than the width then no alignment is performed. If used with + '--quote' everything in between %(align:...) and %(end) is + quoted, but if nested then only the topmost level performs + quoting. 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 +166,8 @@ 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 |