Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chrisc...@tuxfamily.org> --- Documentation/git-interpret-trailers.txt | 123 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 123 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/git-interpret-trailers.txt
diff --git a/Documentation/git-interpret-trailers.txt b/Documentation/git-interpret-trailers.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..75ae386 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/git-interpret-trailers.txt @@ -0,0 +1,123 @@ +git-interpret-trailers(1) +========================= + +NAME +---- +git-interpret-trailers - help add stuctured information into commit messages + +SYNOPSIS +-------- +[verse] +'git interpret-trailers' [--trim-empty] [(<token>[(=|:)<value>])...] + +DESCRIPTION +----------- +Help add RFC 822-like headers, called 'trailers', at the end of the +otherwise free-form part of a commit message. + +This command is a filter. It reads the standard input for a commit +message and applies the `token` arguments, if any, to this +message. The resulting message is emited on the standard output. + +Some configuration variables control the way the `token` arguments are +applied to the message and the way any existing trailer in the message +is changed. They also make it possible to automatically add some +trailers. + +By default, a 'token=value' or 'token:value' argument will be added +only if no trailer with the same (token, value) pair is already in the +message. The 'token' and 'value' parts will be trimmed to remove +starting and trailing whitespace, and the resulting trimmed 'token' +and 'value' will appear in the message like this: + +------------------------------------------------ +token: value +------------------------------------------------ + +By default, if there are already trailers with the same 'token', the +new trailer will appear just after the last trailer with the same +'token'. Otherwise it will appear at the end of the message. + +Note that 'trailers' do not follow and are not intended to follow many +rules that are in RFC 822. For example they do not follow the line +breaking rules, the encoding rules and probably many other rules. + +OPTIONS +------- +--trim-empty:: + If the 'value' part of any trailer contains only whitespace, + the whole trailer will be removed from the resulting message. + +CONFIGURATION VARIABLES +----------------------- + +trailer.<token>.key:: + This 'key' will be used instead of 'token' in the + trailer. After some alphanumeric characters, it can contain + some non alphanumeric characters like ':', '=' or '#' that will + be used instead of ':' to separate the token from the value in + the trailer, though the default ':' is more standard. + +trailer.<token>.where:: + This can be either `after`, which is the default, or + `before`. If it is `before`, then a trailer with the specified + token, will appear before, instead of after, other trailers + with the same token, or otherwise at the beginning, instead of + at the end, of all the trailers. + +trailer.<token>.ifexist:: + This option makes it possible to choose what action will be + performed when there is already at least one trailer with the + same token in the message. ++ +The valid values for this option are: `addIfDifferent` (this is the +default), `addIfDifferentNeighbor`, `add`, `overwrite` or `doNothing`. ++ +With `addIfDifferent`, a new trailer will be added only if no trailer +with the same (token, value) pair is already in the message. ++ +With `addIfDifferentNeighbor`, a new trailer will be added only if no +trailer with the same (token, value) pair is above or below the line +where the new trailer will be added. ++ +With `add`, a new trailer will be added, even if some trailers with +the same (token, value) pair are already in the message. ++ +With `overwrite`, the new trailer will overwrite an existing trailer +with the same token. ++ +With `doNothing`, nothing will be done, that is no new trailer will be +added if there is already one with the same token in the message. + +trailer.<token>.ifmissing:: + This option makes it possible to choose what action will be + performed when there is not yet any trailer with the same + token in the message. ++ +The valid values for this option are: `add` (this is the default) and +`doNothing`. ++ +With `add`, a new trailer will be added. ++ +With `doNothing`, nothing will be done. + +trailer.<token>.command:: + This option can be used to specify a shell command that will + be used to automatically add or modify a trailer with the + specified 'token'. ++ +When this option is specified, it is like if a special 'token=value' +argument is added at the end of the command line, where 'value' will +be given by the standard output of the specified command. ++ +If the command contains the `$ARG` string, this string will be +replaced with the 'value' part of an existing trailer with the same +token, if any, before the command is launched. + +SEE ALSO +-------- +linkgit:git-commit[1] + +GIT +--- +Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite -- 1.9.0.164.g3aa33cd.dirty -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
