Merge "two fixes for fast-import's 'ls' command" from Jonathan

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

diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt
index 02133d5fc9a14df7f4fe24d97bdf9980e77f807a..cfb9906bb52f5bd81301e4859759b17ab124cada 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt
@@ -9,7 +9,8 @@ git-commit-tree - Create a new commit object
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
 [verse]
-'git commit-tree' <tree> [(-p <parent commit>)...] < changelog
+'git commit-tree' <tree> [(-p <parent>)...] < changelog
+'git commit-tree' [(-p <parent>)...] [(-m <message>)...] [(-F <file>)...] <tree>
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -17,7 +18,8 @@ This is usually not what an end user wants to run directly.  See
 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.
+emits the new commit object id on stdout. The log message is read
+from the standard input, unless `-m` or `-F` options are given.
 
 A commit object may have any number of parents. With exactly one
 parent, it is an ordinary commit. Having more than one parent makes
@@ -39,9 +41,17 @@ OPTIONS
 <tree>::
        An existing tree object
 
--p <parent commit>::
+-p <parent>::
        Each '-p' indicates the id of a parent commit object.
 
+-m <message>::
+       A paragraph in the commig log message. This can be given more than
+       once and each <message> becomes its own paragraph.
+
+-F <file>::
+       Read the commit log message from the given file. Use `-` to read
+       from the standard input.
+
 
 Commit Information
 ------------------