Autogenerated HTML docs for v1.5.3-rc5-19-g0734d
diff --git a/git-commit-tree.txt b/git-commit-tree.txt index 5870c2c..6a328f4 100644 --- a/git-commit-tree.txt +++ b/git-commit-tree.txt
@@ -51,9 +51,9 @@ - author name, email and date - 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. +While parent object ids are provided on the command line, author and +commiter information is taken from the following environment variables, +if set: GIT_AUTHOR_NAME GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL @@ -65,12 +65,9 @@ (nb "<", ">" and "\n"s are stripped) -In `.git/config` file, the following items are used for GIT_AUTHOR_NAME and -GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL: - - [user] - name = "Your Name" - email = "your@email.address.xz" +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 fully qualified hostname. A commit comment is read from stdin. If a changelog entry is not provided via "<" redirection, "git-commit-tree" will just wait
