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[PATCH] git-commit-tree(1): correct description of defaults

From
Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Date
Jan 10, 2013, 12:29 UTC
Message-ID
<1357820998.10754.6.camel@vanquo.pezone.net>

The old phrasing indicated that the EMAIL environment variable takes precedence over the user.email configuration setting, but it is the other way around.

Signed-off-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
---
 Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt
index 6d5a04c..a221169 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt
@@ -72,13 +72,13 @@ if set:
 	GIT_COMMITTER_NAME
 	GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL
 	GIT_COMMITTER_DATE
-	EMAIL
 
 (nb "<", ">" and "\n"s are stripped)
 
 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 the hostname used for outgoing mail (taken
+present, the environment variable EMAIL, or, if that is not set,
+system user name and the hostname used for outgoing mail (taken
 from `/etc/mailname` and falling back to the fully qualified hostname when
 that file does not exist).
 
-- 
1.7.10.4
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