DESCRIPTION
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This is usually not what an end user wants to run directly. See
-gitlink:git-commit[1] instead.
+linkgit:git-commit[1] instead.
Creates a new commit object based on the provided tree object and
emits the new commit object id on stdout. If no parent is given then
-p <parent commit>::
Each '-p' indicates the id of a parent commit object.
-
+
Commit Information
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- 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
(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 (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.
See Also
--------
-gitlink:git-write-tree[1]
+linkgit:git-write-tree[1]
Author
GIT
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-Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite
-
+Part of the linkgit:git[7] suite