X-Git-Url: https://git.tokkee.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2Fgit-commit-tree.txt;h=a2537e179ab4602090df28a0ee7e4dabda36064f;hb=e66273a6abb8e9cd0967d52113e29c8014a255f8;hp=9586b9729151efd64b3cf5f5d511dd39b664e08e;hpb=d60a6a662fac58f833efde93c962314fd5d83541;p=git.git diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt index 9586b9729..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 @@ -65,14 +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: +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. - [user] - name = "Your Name" - email = "your@email.address.xz" - -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.