From: Anders Waldenborg Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2020 21:26:34 GMT Subject: [PATCH 03/21] doc: mention canonicalization in git i-t manual Message-ID: <20201025212652.3003036-4-anders@0x63.nu> In-Reply-To: <20201025212652.3003036-1-anders@0x63.nu> ); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Signed-off-by: Anders Waldenborg --- Documentation/git-interpret-trailers.txt | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/git-interpret-trailers.txt b/Documentation/git-interpret-trailers.txt index 96ec6499f0..a4be8aed66 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-interpret-trailers.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-interpret-trailers.txt @@ -25,6 +25,11 @@ 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. +When trailers read from input they will be changed into "canonical" +form if the trailer has a corresponding 'trailer..key' +configuration value. This means that it will use the exact spelling +(upper case vs lower case and separator) defined in configuration. + Some configuration variables control the way the `--trailer` arguments are applied to each commit message and the way any existing trailer in the commit message is changed. They also make it possible to -- 2.25.1