@@ -142,6 +142,11 @@ In addition to the above, for commit and tag objects, the header
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field names (`tree`, `parent`, `object`, `type`, and `tag`) can
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be used to specify the value in the header field.
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+ For commit and tag objects, the special `creatordate` and `creator`
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+ fields will correspond to the appropriate date or name-email-date tuple
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+ from the `committer` or `tagger` fields depending on the object type.
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+ These are intended for working on a mix of annotated and lightweight tags.
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+
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Fields that have name-email-date tuple as its value (`author`,
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`committer`, and `tagger`) can be suffixed with `name`, `email`,
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and `date` to extract the named component.
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blank line. The optional GPG signature is `contents:signature`. The
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first `N` lines of the message is obtained using `contents:lines=N`.
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- For sorting purposes, fields with numeric values sort in numeric
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- order (`objectsize`, `authordate`, `committerdate`, `taggerdate`).
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+ For sorting purposes, fields with numeric values sort in numeric order
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+ (`objectsize`, `authordate`, `committerdate`, `creatordate `, `taggerdate`).
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All other fields are used to sort in their byte-value order.
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There is also an option to sort by versions, this can be done by using
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