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Clarify commit-tree documentation

As per http://marc.info/?l=git&m=118737219702802&w=2 , clarify
git-commit-tree documentation.

Signed-off-by: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Mike Hommey 18 years ago committed by Junio C Hamano
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Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt

@ -51,9 +51,9 @@ A commit encapsulates: @@ -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
commiter 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. @@ -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

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