Merge branch 'master' of git://repo.or.cz/git-gui

diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt
index f524d76019960512ba65a0110a542fedf9a54ebb..cfb9906bb52f5bd81301e4859759b17ab124cada 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,9 @@ git-commit-tree - Create a new commit object
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
-'git commit-tree' <tree> [(-p <parent commit>)...] < changelog
+[verse]
+'git commit-tree' <tree> [(-p <parent>)...] < changelog
+'git commit-tree' [(-p <parent>)...] [(-m <message>)...] [(-F <file>)...] <tree>
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -16,7 +18,8 @@ This is usually not what an end user wants to run directly.  See
 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.
+emits the new commit object id on stdout. The log message is read
+from the standard input, unless `-m` or `-F` options are given.
 
 A commit object may have any number of parents. With exactly one
 parent, it is an ordinary commit. Having more than one parent makes
@@ -38,9 +41,17 @@ OPTIONS
 <tree>::
        An existing tree object
 
--p <parent commit>::
+-p <parent>::
        Each '-p' indicates the id of a parent commit object.
 
+-m <message>::
+       A paragraph in the commig log message. This can be given more than
+       once and each <message> becomes its own paragraph.
+
+-F <file>::
+       Read the commit log message from the given file. Use `-` to read
+       from the standard input.
+
 
 Commit Information
 ------------------
@@ -67,7 +78,9 @@ if set:
 
 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.
+present, 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
@@ -89,6 +102,10 @@ Discussion
 
 include::i18n.txt[]
 
+FILES
+-----
+/etc/mailname
+
 SEE ALSO
 --------
 linkgit:git-write-tree[1]