</p>\r
</li>\r
</ul>\r
-<p>If not provided, "git-commit-tree" uses your name, hostname and domain to\r
-provide author and committer info. This can be overridden by\r
-either <tt>.git/config</tt> file, or using the following environment variables.</p>\r
+<p>While parent object ids are provided on the command line, author and\r
+commiter information is taken from the following environment variables,\r
+if set:</p>\r
<div class="literalblock">\r
<div class="content">\r
<pre><tt>GIT_AUTHOR_NAME\r
EMAIL</tt></pre>\r
</div></div>\r
<p>(nb "<", ">" and "\n"s are stripped)</p>\r
-<p>In <tt>.git/config</tt> file, the following items are used for GIT_AUTHOR_NAME and\r
-GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL:</p>\r
-<div class="literalblock">\r
-<div class="content">\r
-<pre><tt>[user]\r
- name = "Your Name"\r
- email = "your@email.address.xz"</tt></pre>\r
-</div></div>\r
+<p>In case (some of) these environment variables are not set, the information\r
+is taken from the configuration items user.name and user.email, or, if not\r
+present, system user name and fully qualified hostname.</p>\r
<p>A commit comment is read from stdin. If a changelog\r
entry is not provided via "<" redirection, "git-commit-tree" will just wait\r
for one to be entered and terminated with ^D.</p>\r
</div>\r
<div id="footer">\r
<div id="footer-text">\r
-Last updated 19-Jul-2007 02:09:34 UTC\r
+Last updated 18-Aug-2007 07:20:22 UTC\r
</div>\r
</div>\r
</body>\r
- author name, email and date
- committer name and email and the commit time.
-If not provided, "git-commit-tree" uses your name, hostname and domain to
-provide author and committer info. This can be overridden by
-either `.git/config` file, or using the following environment variables.
+While parent object ids are provided on the command line, author and
+commiter information is taken from the following environment variables,
+if set:
GIT_AUTHOR_NAME
GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL
(nb "<", ">" and "\n"s are stripped)
-In `.git/config` file, the following items are used for GIT_AUTHOR_NAME and
-GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL:
-
- [user]
- name = "Your Name"
- email = "your@email.address.xz"
+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.
A commit comment is read from stdin. If a changelog
entry is not provided via "<" redirection, "git-commit-tree" will just wait
tag name is expected on standard output.\r
</p>\r
<p>The original tags are not deleted, but can be overwritten;\r
-use "--tag-name-filter=cat" to simply update the tags. In this\r
+use "--tag-name-filter cat" to simply update the tags. In this\r
case, be very careful and make sure you have the old tags\r
backed up in case the conversion has run afoul.</p>\r
<p>Note that there is currently no support for proper rewriting of\r
</div>\r
<div id="footer">\r
<div id="footer-text">\r
-Last updated 24-Jul-2007 08:10:04 UTC\r
+Last updated 18-Aug-2007 07:20:22 UTC\r
</div>\r
</div>\r
</body>\r
tag name is expected on standard output.
+
The original tags are not deleted, but can be overwritten;
-use "--tag-name-filter=cat" to simply update the tags. In this
+use "--tag-name-filter cat" to simply update the tags. In this
case, be very careful and make sure you have the old tags
backed up in case the conversion has run afoul.
+
<p>\r
If this is set, add emails found in Signed-off-by: or Cc: lines to the\r
cc list.\r
- Default is the value of <em>sendemail.signedoffbycc</em> configuration value;\r
+ Default is the value of <em>sendemail.signedoffcc</em> configuration value;\r
if that is unspecified, default to --signed-off-by-cc.\r
</p>\r
</dd>\r
</div>\r
<div id="footer">\r
<div id="footer-text">\r
-Last updated 20-Jul-2007 10:27:38 UTC\r
+Last updated 18-Aug-2007 07:20:23 UTC\r
</div>\r
</div>\r
</body>\r
--signed-off-by-cc, --no-signed-off-by-cc::
If this is set, add emails found in Signed-off-by: or Cc: lines to the
cc list.
- Default is the value of 'sendemail.signedoffbycc' configuration value;
+ Default is the value of 'sendemail.signedoffcc' configuration value;
if that is unspecified, default to --signed-off-by-cc.
--quiet::