doc: interpret-trailers: replace “lines” with “metadata”
We removed the initial comparison to email headers in the previous commit. Now the introduction paragraph just says “trailer lines”, and the only hint that this is metadata/structured information is the “otherwise free-form” phrase. Let’s replace “lines” with “metadata” since that is their purpose. This also makes the introduction more consistent with how I chose to define trailers in the glossary:[1] “Key-value metadata”. (We will introduce “key–value” in the upcoming commit “explain the format after the intro”.) † 1: 68e3c69e (Documentation/glossary: describe "trailer", 2024-11-17) Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Kristoffer Haugsbakk committed
Jun 10, 2026 at 23:21 UTC
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@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ git interpret-trailers [--in-place] [--trim-empty]
DESCRIPTION
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-Add or parse _trailer_ lines at the end of the otherwise
+Add or parse trailers metadata at the end of the otherwise
free-form part of a commit message. For example, in the following commit
message