Git Trailers | Alchemists

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2024-12-12 05:00:06

Git trailers are a powerful source of metadata as parsed by the Git Interpret Trailers command. Even better, trailers can be applied to commits and tags as documented here:

Unfortunately, trailers are severely underutilized so I’d like to show you why they are important and how you can make the most of them to improve your workflow. 🚀

Notice the Milestone trailer is added at the bottom of the commit message. This where all trailers (metadata) exists which provides a rich source of information for post-processing tools like Milestoner (more on this shortly). Even better, you can add multiple trailers at once. Example:

In this case, we know this commit is a patch for the abc issue as found within the Tana issue tracker. That’s a lot of useful information we can use later without degrading the readability of our commit messages. 🚀

We’re not limited to applying trailers to our commits, we can use them in our tags too as introduced in Git 2.46.0. Example:

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