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diff --git a/Documentation/git-interpret-trailers.txt b/Documentation/git-interpret-trailers.txt index d6d9231b50..93d1db6528 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-interpret-trailers.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-interpret-trailers.txt @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ git-interpret-trailers - help add structured information into commit messages SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git interpret-trailers' [--trim-empty] [(--trailer <token>[(=|:)<value>])...] [<file>...] +'git interpret-trailers' [--in-place] [--trim-empty] [(--trailer <token>[(=|:)<value>])...] [<file>...] DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -64,10 +64,13 @@ folding rules, the encoding rules and probably many other rules. OPTIONS ------- +--in-place:: + Edit the files in place. + --trim-empty:: If the <value> part of any trailer contains only whitespace, the whole trailer will be removed from the resulting message. - This apply to existing trailers as well as new trailers. + This applies to existing trailers as well as new trailers. --trailer <token>[(=|:)<value>]:: Specify a (<token>, <value>) pair that should be applied as a @@ -216,6 +219,25 @@ Signed-off-by: Alice <alice@example.com> Signed-off-by: Bob <bob@example.com> ------------ +* Use the `--in-place` option to edit a message file in place: ++ +------------ +$ cat msg.txt +subject + +message + +Signed-off-by: Bob <bob@example.com> +$ git interpret-trailers --trailer 'Acked-by: Alice <alice@example.com>' --in-place msg.txt +$ cat msg.txt +subject + +message + +Signed-off-by: Bob <bob@example.com> +Acked-by: Alice <alice@example.com> +------------ + * Extract the last commit as a patch, and add a 'Cc' and a 'Reviewed-by' trailer to it: + |