X-Git-Url: https://git.tokkee.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2Fgit-commit-tree.txt;h=9586b9729151efd64b3cf5f5d511dd39b664e08e;hb=27c1dbea3e3a23b3c4b3707dfc9a71c3279ae279;hp=a794192d7b50438a2a04aaad816b57dd38f79272;hpb=36d277c72d90d32f99616072b64a2652248f5264;p=git.git diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt index a794192d7..9586b9729 100644 --- 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 :: 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