Merge branch 'jc/advise-i18n' into maint-1.7.8

[git.git] / Documentation / git-for-each-ref.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt b/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt
index 8dc873fd4465879ec3224732c690f1173a6e2dc2..c872b883ba25144457eccb9967bc68003a3332ea 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
 --------
 [verse]
 'git for-each-ref' [--count=<count>] [--shell|--perl|--python|--tcl]
-                  [--sort=<key>]\* [--format=<format>] [<pattern>...]
+                  [(--sort=<key>)...] [--format=<format>] [<pattern>...]
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -82,10 +82,11 @@ objecttype::
        The type of the object (`blob`, `tree`, `commit`, `tag`).
 
 objectsize::
-       The size of the object (the same as 'git-cat-file -s' reports).
+       The size of the object (the same as 'git cat-file -s' reports).
 
 objectname::
        The object name (aka SHA-1).
+       For a non-ambiguous abbreviation of the object name append `:short`.
 
 upstream::
        The name of a local ref which can be considered ``upstream''
@@ -100,9 +101,10 @@ Fields that have name-email-date tuple as its value (`author`,
 `committer`, and `tagger`) can be suffixed with `name`, `email`,
 and `date` to extract the named component.
 
-The first line of the message in a commit and tag object is
-`subject`, the remaining lines are `body`.  The whole message
-is `contents`.
+The complete message in a commit and tag object is `contents`.
+Its first line is `contents:subject`, the remaining lines
+are `contents:body` and the optional GPG signature
+is `contents:signature`.
 
 For sorting purposes, fields with numeric values sort in numeric
 order (`objectsize`, `authordate`, `committerdate`, `taggerdate`).
@@ -122,7 +124,7 @@ EXAMPLES
 --------
 
 An example directly producing formatted text.  Show the most recent
-3 tagged commits::
+3 tagged commits:
 
 ------------
 #!/bin/sh
@@ -139,7 +141,7 @@ Ref: %(*refname)
 
 
 A simple example showing the use of shell eval on the output,
-demonstrating the use of --shell.  List the prefixes of all heads::
+demonstrating the use of --shell.  List the prefixes of all heads:
 ------------
 #!/bin/sh
 
@@ -153,7 +155,7 @@ done
 
 
 A bit more elaborate report on tags, demonstrating that the format
-may be an entire script::
+may be an entire script:
 ------------
 #!/bin/sh
 
@@ -203,3 +205,15 @@ eval=`git for-each-ref --shell --format="$fmt" \
        refs/tags`
 eval "$eval"
 ------------
+
+Author
+------
+Written by Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>.
+
+Documentation
+-------------
+Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
+
+GIT
+---
+Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite