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index 8dc873fd44..db55a4e0bb 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
--------
[verse]
'git for-each-ref' [--count=<count>] [--shell|--perl|--python|--tcl]
- [--sort=<key>]\* [--format=<format>] [<pattern>...]
+ [(--sort=<key>)...] [--format=<format>] [<pattern>...]
DESCRIPTION
-----------
@@ -82,10 +82,11 @@ objecttype::
The type of the object (`blob`, `tree`, `commit`, `tag`).
objectsize::
- The size of the object (the same as 'git-cat-file -s' reports).
+ The size of the object (the same as 'git cat-file -s' reports).
objectname::
The object name (aka SHA-1).
+ For a non-ambiguous abbreviation of the object name append `:short`.
upstream::
The name of a local ref which can be considered ``upstream''
@@ -100,9 +101,11 @@ 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.
-The first line of the message in a commit and tag object is
-`subject`, the remaining lines are `body`. The whole message
-is `contents`.
+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`.
For sorting purposes, fields with numeric values sort in numeric
order (`objectsize`, `authordate`, `committerdate`, `taggerdate`).
@@ -122,7 +125,7 @@ EXAMPLES
--------
An example directly producing formatted text. Show the most recent
-3 tagged commits::
+3 tagged commits:
------------
#!/bin/sh
@@ -139,7 +142,7 @@ Ref: %(*refname)
A simple example showing the use of shell eval on the output,
-demonstrating the use of --shell. List the prefixes of all heads::
+demonstrating the use of --shell. List the prefixes of all heads:
------------
#!/bin/sh
@@ -153,7 +156,7 @@ done
A bit more elaborate report on tags, demonstrating that the format
-may be an entire script::
+may be an entire script:
------------
#!/bin/sh
@@ -203,3 +206,15 @@ eval=`git for-each-ref --shell --format="$fmt" \
refs/tags`
eval "$eval"
------------
+
+Author
+------
+Written by Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>.
+
+Documentation
+-------------
+Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
+
+GIT
+---
+Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite