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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/config/user.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config/user.txt | 10 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/config/user.txt b/Documentation/config/user.txt index ec9233b060..2ffc38d164 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/user.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/user.txt @@ -5,14 +5,14 @@ author.email:: committer.name:: committer.email:: The `user.name` and `user.email` variables determine what ends - up in the `author` and `committer` field of commit + up in the `author` and `committer` fields of commit objects. If you need the `author` or `committer` to be different, the - `author.name`, `author.email`, `committer.name` or + `author.name`, `author.email`, `committer.name`, or `committer.email` variables can be set. - Also, all of these can be overridden by the `GIT_AUTHOR_NAME`, + All of these can be overridden by the `GIT_AUTHOR_NAME`, `GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL`, `GIT_COMMITTER_NAME`, - `GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL` and `EMAIL` environment variables. + `GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL`, and `EMAIL` environment variables. + Note that the `name` forms of these variables conventionally refer to some form of a personal name. See linkgit:git-commit[1] and the @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ user.signingKey:: your private ssh key or the public key when ssh-agent is used. Alternatively it can contain a public key prefixed with `key::` directly (e.g.: "key::ssh-rsa XXXXXX identifier"). The private key - needs to be available via ssh-agent. If not set git will call + needs to be available via ssh-agent. If not set Git will call gpg.ssh.defaultKeyCommand (e.g.: "ssh-add -L") and try to use the first key available. For backward compatibility, a raw key which begins with "ssh-", such as "ssh-rsa XXXXXX identifier", is treated |