@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
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-Help parsing or adding 'trailers' lines, that look similar to RFC 822 e-mail
+Parse or add 'trailer' lines that look similar to RFC 822 e-mail
headers, at the end of the otherwise free-form part of a commit
message.
@@ -249,10 +249,10 @@ for the same <token>, 'trailer.<token>.cmd' is used and
'trailer.<token>.command' is ignored.
trailer.<token>.cmd::
- This option can be used to specify a shell command that will be called:
+ This option can be used to specify a shell command that will be called
once to automatically add a trailer with the specified <token>, and then
- each time a '--trailer <token>=<value>' argument to modify the <value> of
- the trailer that this option would produce.
+ called each time a '--trailer <token>=<value>' argument is specified to
+ modify the <value> of the trailer that this option would produce.
+
When the specified command is first called to add a trailer
with the specified <token>, the behavior is as if a special