[PATCH v4 04/11] doc: interpret-trailers: not just for commit messages

[email protected] Thu, 30 Jul 2026 11:18:17 +0200
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.git
Message-ID <[email protected]>
From: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <[email protected]>

This command doesn’t interface with commits directly. You can
interpret or modify any kind of text, even though commit messages
are the most relevant.

The git(1) suite also isn’t restricted to only direct commit support
since git-tag(1) learned `--trailer` in 066cef77 (builtin/tag: add
--trailer option, 2024-05-05)

Now, we already introduce the command in the “Name” section as dealing
with commit messages as well. That is fine since that intro line needs
to remain pretty short.

Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <[email protected]>
---

Notes (series):
    v2: [new]

 Documentation/git-interpret-trailers.adoc | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-interpret-trailers.adoc b/Documentation/git-interpret-trailers.adoc
index 5e776f0059a..ab3627c2cba 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-interpret-trailers.adoc
+++ b/Documentation/git-interpret-trailers.adoc
@@ -15,8 +15,8 @@ git interpret-trailers [--in-place] [--trim-empty]
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
 Add or parse trailer metadata at the end of the otherwise
-free-form part of a commit message. For example, in the following commit
-message
+free-form part of a commit message, or any other kind of text.
+For example, in the following commit message
 
 ------------------------------------------------
 subject
-- 
2.54.0.22.g9e26862b904