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authorLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2011-12-09 13:37:09 -0800
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2011-12-09 13:37:09 -0800
commiteb8aa3d2c2849cb3a44396b89054339df38e2bfa (patch)
tree7af351487a380753f89376e78a9c860378d28bfb /Documentation
parentMerge branch 'jc/request-pull-show-head-4' (diff)
parentcommit-tree: teach -m/-F options to read logs from elsewhere (diff)
downloadtgif-eb8aa3d2c2849cb3a44396b89054339df38e2bfa.tar.xz
Merge branch 'jc/pull-signed-tag'
* jc/pull-signed-tag: commit-tree: teach -m/-F options to read logs from elsewhere commit-tree: update the command line parsing commit: teach --amend to carry forward extra headers merge: force edit and no-ff mode when merging a tag object commit: copy merged signed tags to headers of merge commit merge: record tag objects without peeling in MERGE_HEAD merge: make usage of commit->util more extensible fmt-merge-msg: Add contents of merged tag in the merge message fmt-merge-msg: package options into a structure fmt-merge-msg: avoid early returns refs DWIMmery: use the same rule for both "git fetch" and others fetch: allow "git fetch $there v1.0" to fetch a tag merge: notice local merging of tags and keep it unwrapped fetch: do not store peeled tag object names in FETCH_HEAD Split GPG interface into its own helper library Conflicts: builtin/fmt-merge-msg.c builtin/merge.c
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt16
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt
index 02133d5fc9..cfb9906bb5 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt
@@ -9,7 +9,8 @@ git-commit-tree - Create a new commit object
SYNOPSIS
--------
[verse]
-'git commit-tree' <tree> [(-p <parent commit>)...] < changelog
+'git commit-tree' <tree> [(-p <parent>)...] < changelog
+'git commit-tree' [(-p <parent>)...] [(-m <message>)...] [(-F <file>)...] <tree>
DESCRIPTION
-----------
@@ -17,7 +18,8 @@ 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.
+emits the new commit object id on stdout. The log message is read
+from the standard input, unless `-m` or `-F` options are given.
A commit object may have any number of parents. With exactly one
parent, it is an ordinary commit. Having more than one parent makes
@@ -39,9 +41,17 @@ OPTIONS
<tree>::
An existing tree object
--p <parent commit>::
+-p <parent>::
Each '-p' indicates the id of a parent commit object.
+-m <message>::
+ A paragraph in the commig log message. This can be given more than
+ once and each <message> becomes its own paragraph.
+
+-F <file>::
+ Read the commit log message from the given file. Use `-` to read
+ from the standard input.
+
Commit Information
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