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trailer doc: emphasize the effect of configuration variables

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The sentence does not mention the effect of configuration variables at
all, when they are actively used by default (unless --parse is
specified) to potentially add new trailers, without the user having to
always supply --trailer manually.

Signed-off-by: Linus Arver <linusa@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Linus Arver
2023-09-07 22:20:07 +00:00
committed by Junio C Hamano
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@ -34,9 +34,12 @@ This command reads commit messages from either the
If `--parse` is specified, the output consists of the parsed trailers
coming from the input, without influencing them with any command line
options or configuration variables.
Otherwise, this command applies the arguments passed using the
`--trailer` option, if any, to each input file. The result is emitted on the
standard output.
Otherwise, this command applies `trailer.*` configuration variables
(which could potentially add new trailers, as well as reposition them),
as well as any command line arguments that can override configuration
variables (such as `--trailer=...` which could also add new trailers),
to each input file. The result is emitted on the standard output.
This command can also operate on the output of linkgit:git-format-patch[1],
which is more elaborate than a plain commit message. Namely, such output