SYNOPSIS
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[verse]
-'git commit-tree' <tree> [(-p <parent>)...] < changelog
-'git commit-tree' [(-p <parent>)...] [(-m <message>)...] [(-F <file>)...] <tree>
+'git commit-tree' <tree> [(-p <parent>)...]
+'git commit-tree' [(-p <parent>)...] [-S[<keyid>]] [(-m <message>)...]
+ [(-F <file>)...] <tree>
+
DESCRIPTION
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emits the new commit object id on stdout. The log message is read
from the standard input, unless `-m` or `-F` options are given.
+The `-m` and `-F` options can be given any number of times, in any
+order. The commit log message will be composed in the order in which
+the 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
the commit a merge between several lines of history. Initial (root)
directory, a commit represents that state in "time", and explains how
to get there.
-Normally a commit would identify a new "HEAD" state, and while git
+Normally a commit would identify a new "HEAD" state, and while Git
doesn't care where you save the note about that state, in practice we
tend to just write the result to the file that is pointed at by
`.git/HEAD`, so that we can always see what the last committed
OPTIONS
-------
<tree>::
- An existing tree object
+ An existing tree object.
-p <parent>::
- Each '-p' indicates the id of a parent commit object.
+ Each `-p` indicates the id of a parent commit object.
-m <message>::
A paragraph in the commit log message. This can be given more than
-F <file>::
Read the commit log message from the given file. Use `-` to read
- from the standard input.
+ from the standard input. This can be given more than once and the
+ content of each file becomes its own paragraph.
+
+-S[<keyid>]::
+--gpg-sign[=<keyid>]::
+ GPG-sign commits. The `keyid` argument is optional and
+ defaults to the committer identity; if specified, it must be
+ stuck to the option without a space.
+
+--no-gpg-sign::
+ Do not GPG-sign commit, to countermand a `--gpg-sign` option
+ given earlier on the command line.
Commit Information