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From: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
	Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Subject: [PATCH v5 1/3] Documentation: clarify %(contents:XXXX) doc
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2020 14:19:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200716121940.21041-2-chriscool@tuxfamily.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200716121940.21041-1-chriscool@tuxfamily.org>

Let's avoid a big dense paragraph by using an unordered
list for the %(contents:XXXX) format specifiers.

While at it let's also make the following improvements:

  - Let's not describe %(contents) using "complete message"
    as it's not clear what an incomplete message is.

  - Let's improve how the "subject" and "body" are
    described.

  - Let's state that "signature" is only available for
    tag objects.

Suggested-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
---
 Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt | 24 ++++++++++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt b/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt
index 6dcd39f6f6..b739412c30 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt
@@ -232,12 +232,24 @@ Fields that have name-email-date tuple as its value (`author`,
 `committer`, and `tagger`) can be suffixed with `name`, `email`,
 and `date` to extract the named component.
 
-The complete message in a commit and tag object is `contents`.
-Its first line is `contents:subject`, where subject is the concatenation
-of all lines of the commit message up to the first blank line.  The next
-line is `contents:body`, where body is all of the lines after the first
-blank line.  The optional GPG signature is `contents:signature`.  The
-first `N` lines of the message is obtained using `contents:lines=N`.
+The message in a commit or a tag object is `contents`, from which
+`contents:<part>` can be used to extract various parts out of:
+
+contents:subject::
+	The first paragraph of the message, which typically is a
+	single line, is taken as the "subject" of the commit or the
+	tag message.
+
+contents:body::
+	The remainder of the commit or the tag message that follows
+	the "subject".
+
+contents:signature::
+	The optional GPG signature of the tag.
+
+contents:lines=N::
+	The first `N` lines of the message.
+
 Additionally, the trailers as interpreted by linkgit:git-interpret-trailers[1]
 are obtained as `trailers` (or by using the historical alias
 `contents:trailers`).  Non-trailer lines from the trailer block can be omitted
-- 
2.27.0.227.g757ac19d14.dirty


  reply	other threads:[~2020-07-16 12:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-07 17:40 [PATCH v3 0/4] Add support for %(contents:size) in ref-filter Christian Couder
2020-07-07 17:40 ` [PATCH v3 1/4] Documentation: clarify %(contents:XXXX) doc Christian Couder
2020-07-07 19:26   ` Junio C Hamano
2020-07-10 16:47     ` Christian Couder
2020-07-07 17:40 ` [PATCH v3 2/4] Documentation: clarify 'complete message' Christian Couder
2020-07-07 19:19   ` Junio C Hamano
2020-07-07 17:40 ` [PATCH v3 3/4] t6300: test refs pointing to tree and blob Christian Couder
2020-07-07 19:32   ` Junio C Hamano
2020-07-07 17:40 ` [PATCH v3 4/4] ref-filter: add support for %(contents:size) Christian Couder
2020-07-07 19:45   ` Junio C Hamano
2020-07-09  0:14     ` Junio C Hamano
2020-07-09  8:10       ` Christian Couder
2020-07-09 13:47         ` Junio C Hamano
2020-07-07 22:21   ` Junio C Hamano
2020-07-08 23:05   ` Junio C Hamano
2020-07-10 16:47 ` [PATCH v4 0/3] Add support for %(contents:size) in ref-filter Christian Couder
2020-07-10 16:47   ` [PATCH v4 1/3] Documentation: clarify %(contents:XXXX) doc Christian Couder
2020-07-10 20:24     ` Junio C Hamano
2020-07-10 16:47   ` [PATCH v4 2/3] t6300: test refs pointing to tree and blob Christian Couder
2020-07-10 20:24     ` Junio C Hamano
2020-07-10 16:47   ` [PATCH v4 3/3] ref-filter: add support for %(contents:size) Christian Couder
2020-07-10 20:38     ` Junio C Hamano
2020-07-16 12:19   ` [PATCH v5 0/3] Add support for %(contents:size) in ref-filter Christian Couder
2020-07-16 12:19     ` Christian Couder [this message]
2020-07-16 12:19     ` [PATCH v5 2/3] t6300: test refs pointing to tree and blob Christian Couder
2020-07-16 12:19     ` [PATCH v5 3/3] ref-filter: add support for %(contents:size) Christian Couder
2020-07-31 17:37       ` Alban Gruin
2020-07-31 17:45         ` [PATCH v1] t6300: fix issues related to %(contents:size) Alban Gruin
2020-07-31 17:47           ` Jeff King
2020-07-31 18:24             ` Alban Gruin
2020-07-31 20:04             ` Junio C Hamano
2020-07-31 20:30               ` Jeff King
2020-07-31 18:26           ` [PATCH v2] " Alban Gruin
2020-07-31 19:15             ` Jeff King
2020-07-31 17:45         ` [PATCH v5 3/3] ref-filter: add support for %(contents:size) Jeff King
2020-07-31 20:12           ` Christian Couder
2020-07-31 20:30             ` Junio C Hamano
2020-07-31 20:40               ` Jeff King
2020-07-16 17:48     ` [PATCH v5 0/3] Add support for %(contents:size) in ref-filter Junio C Hamano

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