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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Kristoffer Haugsbakk 2024-11-17 20:33:49 +01:00 committed by Junio C Hamano
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@ -696,6 +696,11 @@ the `refs/tags/` hierarchy is used to represent local tags..
that each contain very well defined concepts or small incremental yet
related changes.

[[def_trailer]]trailer::
Key-value metadata. Trailers are optionally found at the end of
a commit message. Might be called "footers" or "tags" in other
communities. See linkgit:git-interpret-trailers[1].

[[def_tree]]tree::
Either a <<def_working_tree,working tree>>, or a <<def_tree_object,tree
object>> together with the dependent <<def_blob_object,blob>> and tree objects