These were introduced back in 2006 at 3175aa1ec28c but
never documented.
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <[email protected]>
---
And I just found these very useful, today!
I also noticed creator{name,email} aren't supported, yet.
Perhaps they're worth implementing for consistency.
Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt | 9 +++++++--
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt
b/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt
index c6f073c..06208c4 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt
@@ -142,6 +142,11 @@ 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 +158,8 @@ 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
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