[PATCH 04/11] doc: trailer: explain "commit mesage part" on first usage
From: Linus Arver via GitGitGadget <hidden>
Date: 2023-05-08 17:28:07
Subsystem:
documentation, the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds
From: Linus Arver <redacted> This phrase is used for the first time here, but it's not explained what it means. So explain it just in case it's not obvious. Signed-off-by: Linus Arver <redacted> --- Documentation/git-interpret-trailers.txt | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-interpret-trailers.txt b/Documentation/git-interpret-trailers.txt
index 3e60a6eaabc..7d6e250f37e 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-interpret-trailers.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-interpret-trailers.txt@@ -22,9 +22,9 @@ This command reads some patches or commit messages from either the <file> arguments or the standard input if no <file> is specified. If `--parse` is specified, the output consists of the parsed trailers. -Otherwise, this command applies the arguments passed using the -`--trailer` option, if any, to the commit message part of each input -file. The result is emitted on the standard output. +Otherwise, this command applies the arguments passed using the `--trailer` +option, if any, to the commit message part of each input file (as opposed to the +patch part following a '---' divider). The result is emitted to standard output. Some configuration variables control the way the `--trailer` arguments are applied to each commit message and the way any existing trailer in
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