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authorJunio C Hamano <junio@hera.kernel.org>2008-08-10 03:55:58 +0000
committerJunio C Hamano <junio@hera.kernel.org>2008-08-10 03:55:58 +0000
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Autogenerated HTML docs for v1.6.0-rc2-22-g71b9
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@@ -327,11 +327,11 @@ git-commit-tree(1) Manual Page
<div class="para"><p>This is usually not what an end user wants to run directly. See
<a href="git-commit.html">git-commit(1)</a> instead.</p></div>
<div class="para"><p>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
-it is considered to be an initial tree.</p></div>
-<div class="para"><p>A commit object usually has 1 parent (a commit after a change) or up
-to 16 parents. More than one parent represents a merge of branches
-that led to them.</p></div>
+emits the new commit object id on stdout.</p></div>
+<div class="para"><p>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)
+commits have no parents.</p></div>
<div class="para"><p>While a tree represents a particular directory state of a working
directory, a commit represents that state in "time", and explains how
to get there.</p></div>
@@ -525,7 +525,7 @@ reversible operation.</p></div>
</div>
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-Last updated 2008-07-06 05:16:39 UTC
+Last updated 2008-08-10 03:55:18 UTC
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