Merge branch 'tr/maint-bundle-boundary' into maint-1.7.8

[git.git] / Documentation / git-commit-tree.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt
index 5dcf4278fc497e4d72093069bdcd18b4ecff0949..02133d5fc9a14df7f4fe24d97bdf9980e77f807a 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ git-commit-tree - Create a new commit object
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
+[verse]
 'git commit-tree' <tree> [(-p <parent commit>)...] < changelog
 
 DESCRIPTION
@@ -67,7 +68,9 @@ if set:
 
 In case (some of) these environment variables are not set, the information
 is taken from the configuration items user.name and user.email, or, if not
-present, system user name and fully qualified hostname.
+present, system user name and the hostname used for outgoing mail (taken
+from `/etc/mailname` and falling back to the fully qualified hostname when
+that file does not exist).
 
 A commit comment is read from stdin. If a changelog
 entry is not provided via "<" redirection, 'git commit-tree' will just wait
@@ -89,19 +92,14 @@ Discussion
 
 include::i18n.txt[]
 
+FILES
+-----
+/etc/mailname
+
 SEE ALSO
 --------
 linkgit:git-write-tree[1]
 
-
-Author
-------
-Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
-
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
-
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite