From: Jay Soffian Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2010 23:31:34 GMT Subject: [PATCH] commit.txt: clarify how --author argument is used Message-ID: <1275867094-8634-1-git-send-email-jaysoffian@gmail.com> commit --author was added by 146ea06 (git commit --author=$name: look $name up in existing commits), but its documentation was sorely lacking compared to its excellent commit message. This commit tries to improve the documentation. Signed-off-by: Jay Soffian --- Documentation/git-commit.txt | 9 +++++---- 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit.txt b/Documentation/git-commit.txt index 32c482f..c28603e 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-commit.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-commit.txt @@ -95,10 +95,11 @@ OPTIONS read the message from the standard input. --author=:: - Override the author name used in the commit. You can use the - standard `A U Thor ` format. Otherwise, - an existing commit that matches the given string and its author - name is used. + Override the commit author. Specify an explicit author using the + standard `A U Thor ` format. Otherwise + is assumed to be a pattern and is used to search for an existing + commit by that author (i.e. rev-list --all -i --author=); + the commit author is then copied from the first such commit found. --date=:: Override the author date used in the commit. -- 1.7.1