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diff --git a/third_party/git/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt b/third_party/git/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt index ec15ee8d6fad..4b90b9c12a4a 100644 --- a/third_party/git/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt +++ b/third_party/git/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt @@ -69,6 +69,7 @@ OPTIONS Do not GPG-sign commit, to countermand a `--gpg-sign` option given earlier on the command line. + Commit Information ------------------ @@ -78,6 +79,26 @@ A commit encapsulates: - author name, email and date - committer name and email and the commit time. +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 + +(nb "<", ">" and "\n"s are stripped) + +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, the environment variable EMAIL, or, if that is not set, +system user name and the hostname used for outgoing mail (taken +from `/etc/mailname` and falling back to the fully qualified hostname when +that file does not exist). + 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. @@ -96,7 +117,6 @@ FILES SEE ALSO -------- linkgit:git-write-tree[1] -linkgit:git-commit[1] GIT --- |