# [PATCH] doc: interpret-trailers: close all pairs of single quotes

1 messages from 2025-08-22 to 2025-08-22. Participants: kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/64014

## kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com, 2025-08-22 15:20

Subject: [PATCH] doc: interpret-trailers: close all pairs of single quotes
Message-ID: <4eac944102a846695a9f61ead39a5a86361a0532.1755875970.git.code@khaugsbakk.name>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/4eac944102a846695a9f61ead39a5a86361a0532.1755875970.git.code%40khaugsbakk.name

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From: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name>

Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name>
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Notes (series):
    Demo:
    
        $ html2text <git-interpret-trailers.html | grep "'"
        This means that the trimmed <key> and <value> will be separated by ': ' (one
              $ git interpret-trailers --trailer 'sign: Alice <alice@example.com>' --
              trailer 'sign: Bob <bob@example.com>' <msg.txt
              $ git interpret-trailers --trailer 'Acked-by: Alice <alice@example.com>'
              $ git interpret-trailers --trailer 'Cc: Alice <alice@example.com>' --
              trailer 'Reviewed-by: Bob <bob@example.com>' 0001-foo.patch >0001-
            * Configure a sign trailer with a command to automatically add a 'Signed-
              off-by: ' with the author information only if there is no 'Signed-off-by:
              ' already, and show how it works:
              $ git config trailer.sign.cmd 'echo "$(git config user.name) <$(git
              config user.email)>"'
              $ sed -e 's/ Z$/ /' temp.txt > commit_template.txt
    
    And on ‘master’:
    
        $ html2text <git-interpret-trailers.html  |grep "'"
        This means that the trimmed <key> and <value> will be separated by ': ' (one
              exists. Upon encountering '--no-if-exists, clear the effect of any
              previous use of '--if-exists, such that the relevant configuration
              missing. Upon encountering '--no-if-missing, clear the effect of any
              previous use of '--if-missing, such that the relevant configuration
              $ git interpret-trailers --trailer 'sign: Alice <alice@example.com>' --
              trailer 'sign: Bob <bob@example.com>' <msg.txt
              $ git interpret-trailers --trailer 'Acked-by: Alice <alice@example.com>'
              $ git interpret-trailers --trailer 'Cc: Alice <alice@example.com>' --
              trailer 'Reviewed-by: Bob <bob@example.com>' 0001-foo.patch >0001-
            * Configure a sign trailer with a command to automatically add a 'Signed-
              off-by: ' with the author information only if there is no 'Signed-off-by:
              ' already, and show how it works:
              $ git config trailer.sign.cmd 'echo "$(git config user.name) <$(git
              config user.email)>"'
              $ sed -e 's/ Z$/ /' temp.txt > commit_template.txt

 Documentation/git-interpret-trailers.adoc | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-interpret-trailers.adoc b/Documentation/git-interpret-trailers.adoc
index 82c8780d932..fd335fe772a 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-interpret-trailers.adoc
+++ b/Documentation/git-interpret-trailers.adoc
@@ -142,8 +142,8 @@ OPTIONS
 	provided with '--if-exists' overrides the `trailer.ifExists` and any
 	applicable `trailer.<keyAlias>.ifExists` configuration variables
 	and applies to all '--trailer' options until the next occurrence of
-	'--if-exists' or '--no-if-exists'. Upon encountering '--no-if-exists, clear the
-	effect of any previous use of '--if-exists, such that the relevant configuration
+	'--if-exists' or '--no-if-exists'. Upon encountering '--no-if-exists', clear the
+	effect of any previous use of '--if-exists', such that the relevant configuration
 	variables are no longer overridden. Possible actions are `addIfDifferent`,
 	`addIfDifferentNeighbor`, `add`, `replace` and `doNothing`.
 
@@ -154,8 +154,8 @@ OPTIONS
 	provided with '--if-missing' overrides the `trailer.ifMissing` and any
 	applicable `trailer.<keyAlias>.ifMissing` configuration variables
 	and applies to all '--trailer' options until the next occurrence of
-	'--if-missing' or '--no-if-missing'. Upon encountering '--no-if-missing,
-	clear the effect of any previous use of '--if-missing, such that the relevant
+	'--if-missing' or '--no-if-missing'. Upon encountering '--no-if-missing',
+	clear the effect of any previous use of '--if-missing', such that the relevant
 	configuration variables are no longer overridden. Possible actions are `doNothing`
 	or `add`.
 

base-commit: 954d33a9757fcfab723a824116902f1eb16e05f7
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2.50.1


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