Subject: [PATCH v2 2/9] doc: interpret-trailers: replace “lines” with “metadata”

From: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:21:01 +0200

From: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <[email-masked]>

We removed the initial comparison to email headers in the previous
commit. Now the introduction paragraph just says “trailer lines”, and
the only hint that this is metadata/structured information is the
“otherwise free-form” phrase.

Let’s replace “lines” with “metadata” since that is their purpose.
This also makes the introduction more consistent with how I chose
to define trailers in the glossary:[1] “Key-value metadata”. (We will
introduce “key–value” in the upcoming commit “explain the format after
the intro”.)

† 1: 68e3c69e (Documentation/glossary: describe "trailer", 2024-11-17)

Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <[email-masked]>
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Notes (series):
    v2: [new]

 Documentation/git-interpret-trailers.adoc | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-interpret-trailers.adoc b/Documentation/git-interpret-trailers.adoc
index 1878848ad2a..3f60fd9b720 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-interpret-trailers.adoc
+++ b/Documentation/git-interpret-trailers.adoc
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ git interpret-trailers [--in-place] [--trim-empty]
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
-Add or parse _trailer_ lines at the end of the otherwise
+Add or parse trailers metadata at the end of the otherwise
 free-form part of a commit message. For example, in the following commit
 message
 
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2.53.0.32.gf6228eaf9cc