Documentation/git-web--browse.txt: fix small typo

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

diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt
index 5870c2ce4759f56455cb420ce076dc95770513d4..170803a6d0ce2e37a3d2bea8199ec7fb5308b261 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
 This is usually not what an end user wants to run directly.  See
-gitlink:git-commit[1] instead.
+linkgit:git-commit[1] instead.
 
 Creates a new commit object based on the provided tree object and
 emits the new commit object id on stdout. If no parent is given then
@@ -51,9 +51,9 @@ A commit encapsulates:
 - author name, email and date
 - 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 by
-either `.git/config` file, or using the following environment variables.
+While parent object ids are provided on the command line, author and
+committer information is taken from the following environment variables,
+if set:
 
        GIT_AUTHOR_NAME
        GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL
@@ -65,12 +65,9 @@ either `.git/config` file, or using the following environment variables.
 
 (nb "<", ">" and "\n"s are stripped)
 
-In `.git/config` file, the following items are used for GIT_AUTHOR_NAME and
-GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL:
-
-       [user]
-               name = "Your Name"
-               email = "your@email.address.xz"
+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.
 
 A commit comment is read from stdin. If a changelog
 entry is not provided via "<" redirection, "git-commit-tree" will just wait
@@ -93,7 +90,7 @@ include::i18n.txt[]
 
 See Also
 --------
-gitlink:git-write-tree[1]
+linkgit:git-write-tree[1]
 
 
 Author
@@ -106,4 +103,4 @@ Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel
 
 GIT
 ---
-Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite
+Part of the linkgit:git[7] suite