Merge branch 'maint'

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

diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt
index a794192d7b50438a2a04aaad816b57dd38f79272..9586b9729151efd64b3cf5f5d511dd39b664e08e 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ git-commit-tree(1)
 
 NAME
 ----
-git-commit-tree - Creates a new commit object
+git-commit-tree - Create a new commit object
 
 
 SYNOPSIS
@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ SYNOPSIS
 
 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.
@@ -37,7 +40,7 @@ OPTIONS
 
 -p <parent commit>::
        Each '-p' indicates the id of a parent commit object.
-       
+
 
 Commit Information
 ------------------
@@ -57,10 +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"
@@ -80,6 +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]
@@ -96,4 +107,3 @@ Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite
-