[PATCH v2 09/13] trailer --parse docs: add explanation for its usefulness
From: Linus Arver via GitGitGadget <hidden>
Date: 2023-08-10 21:18:24
Subsystem:
documentation, the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds
From: Linus Arver <redacted> For users who are skimming the docs to go straight to the individual breakdown of each flag, it may not be clear why --parse is a convenience alias (without them also looking at the other options that --parse turns on). To save them the trouble of looking at the other options (and computing what that would mean), describe a summary of the overall effect. Similarly update the area when we first mention --parse near the top of the doc. Signed-off-by: Linus Arver <redacted> --- Documentation/git-interpret-trailers.txt | 9 +++++++-- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-interpret-trailers.txt b/Documentation/git-interpret-trailers.txt
index 0eea937c30e..2d49445b1c3 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-interpret-trailers.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-interpret-trailers.txt@@ -31,7 +31,9 @@ the last two lines starting with "Signed-off-by" are trailers. This command reads 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. +If `--parse` is specified, the output consists of the parsed trailers +coming from the input, without influencing them with any command line +options or configuration variables. Otherwise, this command applies the arguments passed using the `--trailer` option, if any, to each input file. The result is emitted on the standard output.
@@ -158,7 +160,10 @@ OPTIONS --parse:: A convenience alias for `--only-trailers --only-input - --unfold`. + --unfold`. This makes it easier to only see the trailers coming from the + input without influencing them with any command line options or + configuration variables, while also making the output machine-friendly with + --unfold. --no-divider:: Do not treat `---` as the end of the commit message. Use this
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