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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt | 27 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt b/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt index 6dcd39f6f6..2ea71c5f6c 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt @@ -232,12 +232,27 @@ 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 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. The optional GPG signature is `contents:signature`. The -first `N` lines of the message is obtained using `contents:lines=N`. +The message in a commit or a tag object is `contents`, from which +`contents:<part>` can be used to extract various parts out of: + +contents:size:: + The size in bytes of the commit or tag message. + +contents:subject:: + The first paragraph of the message, which typically is a + single line, is taken as the "subject" of the commit or the + tag message. + +contents:body:: + The remainder of the commit or the tag message that follows + the "subject". + +contents:signature:: + The optional GPG signature of the tag. + +contents:lines=N:: + The first `N` lines of the message. + Additionally, the trailers as interpreted by linkgit:git-interpret-trailers[1] are obtained as `trailers` (or by using the historical alias `contents:trailers`). Non-trailer lines from the trailer block can be omitted |