The name of the ref (the part after $GIT_DIR/).
For a non-ambiguous short name of the ref append `:short`.
The option core.warnAmbiguousRefs is used to select the strict
- abbreviation mode.
+ abbreviation mode. If `strip=<N>` is appended, strips `<N>`
+ slash-separated path components from the front of the refname
+ (e.g., `%(refname:strip=2)` turns `refs/tags/foo` into `foo`.
+ `<N>` must be a positive integer. If a displayed ref has fewer
+ components than `<N>`, the command aborts with an error.
objecttype::
The type of the object (`blob`, `tree`, `commit`, `tag`).
field names (`tree`, `parent`, `object`, `type`, and `tag`) can
be used to specify the value in the header field.
+For commit and tag objects, the special `creatordate` and `creator`
+fields will correspond to the appropriate date or name-email-date tuple
+from the `committer` or `tagger` fields depending on the object type.
+These are intended for working on a mix of annotated and lightweight tags.
+
Fields that have name-email-date tuple as its value (`author`,
`committer`, and `tagger`) can be suffixed with `name`, `email`,
and `date` to extract the named component.
blank line. The optional GPG signature is `contents:signature`. The
first `N` lines of the message is obtained using `contents:lines=N`.
-For sorting purposes, fields with numeric values sort in numeric
-order (`objectsize`, `authordate`, `committerdate`, `taggerdate`).
+For sorting purposes, fields with numeric values sort in numeric order
+(`objectsize`, `authordate`, `committerdate`, `creatordate`, `taggerdate`).
All other fields are used to sort in their byte-value order.
There is also an option to sort by versions, this can be done by using