X-Git-Url: https://git.tokkee.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2Fgit-commit-tree.txt;h=a2537e179ab4602090df28a0ee7e4dabda36064f;hb=e66273a6abb8e9cd0967d52113e29c8014a255f8;hp=5870c2ce4759f56455cb420ce076dc95770513d4;hpb=c1c10a3f272ec0908e63bc105a5ffe94c1279fba;p=git.git

diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt
index 5870c2ce4..a2537e179 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt
@@ -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
@@ -65,12 +65,9 @@ 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. If a changelog
 entry is not provided via "<" redirection, "git-commit-tree" will just wait