[PATCH v10 11/12] Documentation: add documentation for 'git interpret-trailers'
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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+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
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Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>