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 d9b0ab07170160dda74512843bd15e9ef350a5a5..a2537e179ab4602090df28a0ee7e4dabda36064f 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
 -------
@@ -36,7 +40,7 @@ OPTIONS
 
 -p <parent commit>::
        Each '-p' indicates the id of a parent commit object.
-       
+
 
 Commit Information
 ------------------
@@ -47,22 +51,29 @@ 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 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
        GIT_AUTHOR_DATE
        GIT_COMMITTER_NAME
        GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL
+       GIT_COMMITTER_DATE
+       EMAIL
 
 (nb "<", ">" and "\n"s are stripped)
 
-A commit comment is read from stdin (max 999 chars). If a changelog
+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
 for one to be entered and terminated with ^D.
 
+
 Diagnostics
 -----------
 You don't exist. Go away!::
@@ -72,6 +83,11 @@ 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]
@@ -88,4 +104,3 @@ Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite
-