X-Git-Url: https://git.verplant.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2Fgit-commit-tree.txt;h=5cf6bd3e211f6b5d4b53821e2a88b91cc6d80070;hb=7acab8f16785151f9b6d9bbd8a9b0a8b76b26fba;hp=705be4e3346f61f1c7b061f8efd6dc907f769a4a;hpb=0493a3fd5204a36bc961a8611770ddb9ec1ed8ed;p=git.git diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt index 705be4e3..5cf6bd3e 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt @@ -1,6 +1,5 @@ git-commit-tree(1) ================== -v0.1, May 2005 NAME ---- @@ -9,7 +8,7 @@ git-commit-tree - Creates a new commit object SYNOPSIS -------- -'git-commit-tree' [-p ]\ < changelog +'git-commit-tree' [-p ]\* < changelog DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -36,7 +35,7 @@ OPTIONS An existing tree object -p :: - Each '-p' indicates a the id of a parent commit object. + Each '-p' indicates the id of a parent commit object. Commit Information @@ -49,8 +48,8 @@ A commit encapsulates: - committer name and email and the commit time. If not provided, "git-commit-tree" uses your name, hostname and domain to -provide author and committer info. This can be overridden using the -following environment variables. +provide author and committer info. This can be overridden by +either `.git/config` file, or using the following environment variables. GIT_AUTHOR_NAME GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL @@ -58,11 +57,18 @@ following environment variables. GIT_COMMITTER_NAME GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL -(nb <,> and '\n's are stripped) +(nb "<", ">" and "\n"s are stripped) + +In `.git/config` file, the following items are used: + + [user] + name = "Your Name" + email = "your@email.address.xz" A commit comment is read from stdin (max 999 chars). If a changelog -entry is not provided via '<' redirection, "git-commit-tree" will just wait -for one to be entered and terminated with ^D +entry is not provided via "<" redirection, "git-commit-tree" will just wait +for one to be entered and terminated with ^D. + Diagnostics -----------