read the message from the standard input.
--author=<author>::
- Override the author name used in the commit. You can use the
- standard `A U Thor <author@example.com>` format. Otherwise,
- an existing commit that matches the given string and its author
- name is used.
+ Override the commit author. Specify an explicit author using the
+ standard `A U Thor <author@example.com>` format. Otherwise <author>
+ is assumed to be a pattern and is used to search for an existing
+ commit by that author (i.e. rev-list --all -i --author=<author>);
+ the commit author is then copied from the first such commit found.
--date=<date>::
Override the author date used in the commit.
Show untracked files (Default: 'all').
+
The mode parameter is optional, and is used to specify
-the handling of untracked files. The possible options are:
+the handling of untracked files.
++
+The possible options are:
+
---
- 'no' - Show no untracked files
- 'normal' - Shows untracked files and directories
- 'all' - Also shows individual files in untracked directories.
---
+
See linkgit:git-config[1] for configuration variable
used to change the default for when the option is not