Documentation/glossary: describe "trailer"
Reported-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@@ -696,6 +696,11 @@ the `refs/tags/` hierarchy is used to represent local tags..
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that each contain very well defined concepts or small incremental yet
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related changes.
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+[[def_trailer]]trailer::
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+ Key-value metadata. Trailers are optionally found at the end of
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+ a commit message. Might be called "footers" or "tags" in other
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+ communities. See linkgit:git-interpret-trailers[1].
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[[def_tree]]tree::
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Either a <<def_working_tree,working tree>>, or a <<def_tree_object,tree
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object>> together with the dependent <<def_blob_object,blob>> and tree objects