[PATCH] Documentation/glossary: describe "trailer"
From: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name>
Reported-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name>
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Notes (series):
On Wed, Nov 13, 2024, at 23:31, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com> writes:
> > [...]
> We do not even have an entry in the glossary for "trailer", and that
> probably is the first thing we need to fix.
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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].
+
[[def_tree]]tree::
Either a <<def_working_tree,working tree>>, or a <<def_tree_object,tree
object>> together with the dependent <<def_blob_object,blob>> and tree objects
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