[PATCH] Documentation/glossary: describe "trailer"

[kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com]

From: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name>

Reported-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name>
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Notes (series):
    On Wed, Nov 13, 2024, at 23:31, Junio C Hamano wrote:
    > Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com> writes:
    > > [...]
    > We do not even have an entry in the glossary for "trailer", and that
    > probably is the first thing we need to fix.
    
    ---
    
    • Tags: What the Linux Kernel uses
    • Footers: Lots of people around the Internet apparently. Like on
      Stackoverflow. Or Chromium: https://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/chrome-infra-docs/flat/depot_tools/docs/html/git-footers.html

 Documentation/glossary-content.txt | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt
index 42afe048691..575c18f776e 100644
--- a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt
+++ b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt
@@ -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
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