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authorJunio C Hamano <junio@hera.kernel.org>2007-08-18 07:20:55 +0000
committerJunio C Hamano <junio@hera.kernel.org>2007-08-18 07:20:55 +0000
commit1b11dcb15bd661fbf335792c7be9ea8f7aca5026 (patch)
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parent3c1f2c7512cc132bb2ac42233fea8cd1ef4c31f9 (diff)
downloadgit-htmldocs-1b11dcb15bd661fbf335792c7be9ea8f7aca5026.tar.gz
Autogenerated HTML docs for v1.5.3-rc5-19-g0734d
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@@ -334,9 +334,9 @@ committer name and email and the commit time.
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</li>
</ul>
-<p>If not provided, "git-commit-tree" uses your name, hostname and domain to
-provide author and committer info. This can be overridden by
-either <tt>.git/config</tt> file, or using the following environment variables.</p>
+<p>While parent object ids are provided on the command line, author and
+commiter information is taken from the following environment variables,
+if set:</p>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre><tt>GIT_AUTHOR_NAME
@@ -348,14 +348,9 @@ GIT_COMMITTER_DATE
EMAIL</tt></pre>
</div></div>
<p>(nb "&lt;", "&gt;" and "\n"s are stripped)</p>
-<p>In <tt>.git/config</tt> file, the following items are used for GIT_AUTHOR_NAME and
-GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL:</p>
-<div class="literalblock">
-<div class="content">
-<pre><tt>[user]
- name = "Your Name"
- email = "your@email.address.xz"</tt></pre>
-</div></div>
+<p>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.</p>
<p>A commit comment is read from stdin. If a changelog
entry is not provided via "&lt;" redirection, "git-commit-tree" will just wait
for one to be entered and terminated with ^D.</p>
@@ -482,7 +477,7 @@ reversible operation.</p>
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-Last updated 19-Jul-2007 02:09:34 UTC
+Last updated 18-Aug-2007 07:20:22 UTC
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