[PATCH v3 1/4] doc: move author and committer information to git-commit(1)
- From
brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
- Date
- Nov 2, 2019, 19:26 UTC
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- <20191102192615.10013-2-sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
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- <20191102192615.10013-1-sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
While at one time it made perfect sense to store information about configuring author and committer information in the documentation for git commit-tree, in modern Git that operation is seldom used. Most users will use git commit and expect to find comprehensive documentation about its use in the manual page for that command.
Considering that there is significant confusion about how one is to use the user.name and user.email variables, let's put as much documentation as possible into an obvious place where users will be more likely to find it.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> --- Documentation/config/user.txt | 2 +- Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt | 39 ++++--------------------------- Documentation/git-commit.txt | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++--- 3 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/config/user.txt b/Documentation/config/user.txt index 0557cbbceb..a1f80e823c 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/user.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/user.txt @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ committer.email:: Also, all of these can be overridden by the `GIT_AUTHOR_NAME`, `GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL`, `GIT_COMMITTER_NAME`, `GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL` and `EMAIL` environment variables. - See linkgit:git-commit-tree[1] for more information. + See linkgit:git-commit[1] for more information. user.useConfigOnly:: Instruct Git to avoid trying to guess defaults for `user.email` diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt index 4b90b9c12a..d518dffce0 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt @@ -42,6 +42,10 @@ tend to just write the result to the file that is pointed at by `.git/HEAD`, so that we can always see what the last committed state was. +A commit comment is read from stdin. If a changelog +entry is not provided via "<" redirection, 'git commit-tree' will just wait +for one to be entered and terminated with ^D. + OPTIONS ------- <tree>:: @@ -69,40 +73,6 @@ OPTIONS Do not GPG-sign commit, to countermand a `--gpg-sign` option given earlier on the command line. - -Commit Information ------------------- - -A commit encapsulates: - -- all parent object ids -- author name, email and date -- committer name and email and the commit time. - -While parent object ids are provided on the command line, author and -committer information is taken from the following environment variables, -if set: - - GIT_AUTHOR_NAME - GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL - GIT_AUTHOR_DATE - GIT_COMMITTER_NAME - GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL - GIT_COMMITTER_DATE - -(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, 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). - -A commit comment is read from stdin. If a changelog -entry is not provided via "<" redirection, 'git commit-tree' will just wait -for one to be entered and terminated with ^D. - include::date-formats.txt[] Discussion @@ -117,6 +87,7 @@ FILES SEE ALSO -------- linkgit:git-write-tree[1] +linkgit:git-commit[1] GIT --- diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit.txt b/Documentation/git-commit.txt index afa7b75a23..f684f7fdc2 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-commit.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-commit.txt @@ -352,9 +352,6 @@ changes to tracked files. these files are also staged for the next commit on top of what have been staged before. -:git-commit: 1 -include::date-formats.txt[] - EXAMPLES -------- When recording your own work, the contents of modified files in @@ -448,6 +445,37 @@ alter the order the changes are committed, because the merge should be recorded as a single commit. In fact, the command refuses to run when given pathnames (but see `-i` option). +COMMIT INFORMATION +------------------ + +A commit encapsulates: + +- all parent object ids +- author name, email and date +- committer name and email and the commit time. + +While parent object ids are provided on the command line, author and +committer information is taken from the following environment variables, +if set: + + GIT_AUTHOR_NAME + GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL + GIT_AUTHOR_DATE + GIT_COMMITTER_NAME + GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL + GIT_COMMITTER_DATE + +(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, 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). + +:git-commit: 1 +include::date-formats.txt[] DISCUSSION ----------