Re: [PATCH] Documentation/glossary: describe "trailer"

From: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 18, 2024, 07:32 UTC
Message-ID: <CAP8UFD3p3ts_7kvk_Zm2efhcPUcEFnLcLFPAqzb40d46BTVzyA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <ba35ba3ec212860a3151cfad582a384a50c55e6a.1731871683.git.code@khaugsbakk.name>

On Sun, Nov 17, 2024 at 8:34 PM <kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com> wrote:

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>     • Tags: What the Linux Kernel uses
>     • Footers: Lots of people around the Internet apparently. Like on
>       Stackoverflow. Or Chromium: https://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/chrome-infra-docs/flat/depot_tools/docs/html/git-footers.html
>
>  Documentation/glossary-content.txt | 5 +++++
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt
> index 42afe048691..575c18f776e 100644
> --- a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt
> @@ -696,6 +696,11 @@ the `refs/tags/` hierarchy is used to represent local tags..
>         that each contain very well defined concepts or small incremental yet
>         related changes.
>
> +[[def_trailer]]trailer::
> +       Key-value metadata.  Trailers are optionally found at the end of
> +       a commit message.  Might be called "footers" or "tags" in other
> +       communities.  See linkgit:git-interpret-trailers[1].
> +

Ack, thanks!