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diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt index 9aba868fa4..b64cd6a84b 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt @@ -1,6 +1,5 @@ git-commit-tree(1) ================== -v0.1, May 2005 NAME ---- @@ -49,8 +48,8 @@ A commit encapsulates: - 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 using the -following environment variables. +provide author and committer info. This can be overridden by +either `.git/config` file, or using the following environment variables. GIT_AUTHOR_NAME GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL @@ -60,10 +59,17 @@ following environment variables. (nb "<", ">" and "\n"s are stripped) +In `.git/config` file, the following items are used: + + [user] + name = "Your Name" + email = "your@email.address.xz" + A commit comment is read from stdin (max 999 chars). If a changelog entry is not provided via "<" redirection, "git-commit-tree" will just wait for one to be entered and terminated with ^D. + Diagnostics ----------- You don't exist. Go away!:: |