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author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2011-07-06 15:37:42 -0700 |
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committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2011-07-06 15:37:42 -0700 |
commit | 4d9e42f8f11c57b32b976a943c8ddaf6214e64b8 (patch) | |
tree | f1aee1490288aa30fb62a981696389d9b5e3e992 /Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt | |
parent | checkout: do not write bogus reflog entry out (diff) | |
parent | GIT 1.6.0 (diff) | |
download | tgif-4d9e42f8f11c57b32b976a943c8ddaf6214e64b8.tar.xz |
Merge commit 'v1.6.0' into jc/checkout-reflog-fix
* commit 'v1.6.0': (2063 commits)
GIT 1.6.0
git-p4: chdir now properly sets PWD environment variable in msysGit
Improve error output of git-rebase
t9300: replace '!' with test_must_fail
Git.pm: Make File::Spec and File::Temp requirement lazy
Documentation: document the pager.* configuration setting
git-stash: improve synopsis in help and manual page
Makefile: building git in cygwin 1.7.0
git-am: ignore --binary option
bash-completion: Add non-command git help files to bash-completion
Fix t3700 on filesystems which do not support question marks in names
Utilise our new p4_read_pipe and p4_write_pipe wrappers
Add p4 read_pipe and write_pipe wrappers
bash completion: Add '--merge' long option for 'git log'
bash completion: Add completion for 'git mergetool'
git format-patch documentation: clarify what --cover-letter does
bash completion: 'git apply' should use 'fix' not 'strip'
t5304-prune: adjust file mtime based on system time rather than file mtime
test-parse-options: use appropriate cast in length_callback
Fix escaping of glob special characters in pathspecs
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Conflicts:
builtin-checkout.c
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt | 18 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt index 170803a6d0..92ab3ab4a8 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ git-commit-tree - Create a new commit object SYNOPSIS -------- -'git-commit-tree' <tree> [-p <parent commit>]\* < changelog +'git commit-tree' <tree> [-p <parent commit>]\* < changelog DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -16,12 +16,12 @@ This is usually not what an end user wants to run directly. See linkgit:git-commit[1] instead. Creates a new commit object based on the provided tree object and -emits the new commit object id on stdout. If no parent is given then -it is considered to be an initial tree. +emits the new commit object id on stdout. -A commit object usually has 1 parent (a commit after a change) or up -to 16 parents. More than one parent represents a merge of branches -that led to them. +A commit object may have any number of parents. With exactly one +parent, it is an ordinary commit. Having more than one parent makes +the commit a merge between several lines of history. Initial (root) +commits have no parents. While a tree represents a particular directory state of a working directory, a commit represents that state in "time", and explains how @@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ 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 +entry is not provided via "<" redirection, 'git-commit-tree' will just wait for one to be entered and terminated with ^D. @@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ Discussion include::i18n.txt[] -See Also +SEE ALSO -------- linkgit:git-write-tree[1] @@ -103,4 +103,4 @@ Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel GIT --- -Part of the linkgit:git[7] suite +Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite |