Merge branch 'jn/lstree'

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

diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt
index b64cd6a84b7f08164b55445999a12460a3d3c52c..504a3aa1b460ffac9308bec4ff72cf657f8fec30 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt
@@ -3,15 +3,18 @@ git-commit-tree(1)
 
 NAME
 ----
-git-commit-tree - Creates a new commit object
+git-commit-tree - Create a new commit object
 
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
-'git-commit-tree' <tree> [-p <parent commit>]\   < changelog
+'git-commit-tree' <tree> [-p <parent commit>]\* < changelog
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
+This is usually not what an end user wants to run directly.  See
+gitlink: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
 it is considered to be an initial tree.
@@ -26,8 +29,9 @@ to get there.
 
 Normally a commit would identify a new "HEAD" state, and while git
 doesn't care where you save the note about that state, in practice we
-tend to just write the result to the file `.git/HEAD`, so that we can
-always see what the last committed state was.
+tend to just write the result to the file that is pointed at by
+`.git/HEAD`, so that we can always see what the last committed
+state was.
 
 OPTIONS
 -------
@@ -56,10 +60,13 @@ either `.git/config` file, or using the following environment variables.
        GIT_AUTHOR_DATE
        GIT_COMMITTER_NAME
        GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL
+       GIT_COMMITTER_DATE
+       EMAIL
 
 (nb "<", ">" and "\n"s are stripped)
 
-In `.git/config` file, the following items are used:
+In `.git/config` file, the following items are used for GIT_AUTHOR_NAME and
+GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL:
 
        [user]
                name = "Your Name"
@@ -79,6 +86,11 @@ Your parents must have hated you!::
 Your sysadmin must hate you!::
     The password(5) name field is longer than a giant static buffer.
 
+Discussion
+----------
+
+include::i18n.txt[]
+
 See Also
 --------
 gitlink:git-write-tree[1]