From: kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2024 19:33:49 GMT Subject: [PATCH] Documentation/glossary: describe "trailer" Message-ID: In-Reply-To: From: Kristoffer Haugsbakk Reported-by: Junio C Hamano Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk --- Notes (series): On Wed, Nov 13, 2024, at 23:31, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Christian Couder writes: > > [...] > We do not even have an entry in the glossary for "trailer", and that > probably is the first thing we need to fix. --- • 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 <>, or a <> together with the dependent <> and tree objects -- 2.47.0