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trivial: clarify, what are the config's user.name and user.email about

From
Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date
Jan 5, 2006, 11:44 UTC
Message-ID
<81b0412b0601050344u87748b3i62c26898ed77e4a2@mail.gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] clarify, what are the config's user.name and user.email about
Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt |    3 ++-
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
0da8ab0e8ebacc86e38c029a8577411fbb1379f8
diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt
index a794192..41d1a1c 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt
@@ -60,7 +60,8 @@ either `.git/config` file, or using the 
 
 (nb "<", ">" and "\n"s are stripped)
 
-In `.git/config` file, the following items are used:
+In `.git/config` file, the following items are used for GIT_AUTHOR_NAME and
+GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL:
 
 	[user]
 		name = "Your Name"

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  1. Alex RiesenJan 5, 2006

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