doc: trailer: fix grammar

index 4b97f812be..35faf83789 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-interpret-trailers.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-interpret-trailers.txt @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION ----------- -Help parsing or adding 'trailers' lines, that look similar to RFC 822 e-mail +Parse or add 'trailer' lines that look similar to RFC 822 e-mail headers, at the end of the otherwise free-form part of a commit message. @@ -249,10 +249,10 @@ for the same <token>, 'trailer.<token>.cmd' is used and 'trailer.<token>.command' is ignored. trailer.<token>.cmd:: - This option can be used to specify a shell command that will be called: + This option can be used to specify a shell command that will be called once to automatically add a trailer with the specified <token>, and then - each time a '--trailer <token>=<value>' argument to modify the <value> of - the trailer that this option would produce. + called each time a '--trailer <token>=<value>' argument is specified to + modify the <value> of the trailer that this option would produce. + When the specified command is first called to add a trailer with the specified <token>, the behavior is as if a special