Merge branch 'maint' to catch up with 1.5.3.5

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

diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt
index 504a3aa1b460ffac9308bec4ff72cf657f8fec30..a2537e179ab4602090df28a0ee7e4dabda36064f 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ OPTIONS
 
 -p <parent commit>::
        Each '-p' indicates the id of a parent commit object.
-       
+
 
 Commit Information
 ------------------
@@ -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
@@ -65,14 +65,11 @@ 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 (max 999 chars). If a changelog
+A commit comment is read from stdin. If a changelog
 entry is not provided via "<" redirection, "git-commit-tree" will just wait
 for one to be entered and terminated with ^D.
 
@@ -107,4 +104,3 @@ Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite
-