Re: Can't figure out some sense from the git-commit-tree man page
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- J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org>
- Date
- Aug 17, 2007, 17:04 UTC
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- <20070817170411.GF28529@fieldses.org>
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- <Pine.LNX.4.64.0708171751360.20400@racer.site>
On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 05:52:52PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
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> Hi, > > On Fri, 17 Aug 2007, Mike Hommey wrote: > > > ? 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. > > (...) > > > > The "If not provided" part doesn't make sense. > > It does, if you know how to specify the committer info. > > Which the man page specifies how to provide:
At least on a first reading all of the following appears to fall under the "if not provided" case. I know what you mean, but the language here is misleading. One simple fix would be just to delete the words "If not provided", or maybe replace them by "By default, ...".
--b.
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> > This can be overridden by either `.git/config` file, or using the > following environment variables. > > GIT_AUTHOR_NAME > GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL > GIT_AUTHOR_DATE > GIT_COMMITTER_NAME > GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL > GIT_COMMITTER_DATE > EMAIL