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diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt index 002dae625e..4b90b9c12a 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt @@ -23,6 +23,10 @@ Creates a new commit object based on the provided tree object and emits the new commit object id on stdout. The log message is read from the standard input, unless `-m` or `-F` options are given. +The `-m` and `-F` options can be given any number of times, in any +order. The commit log message will be composed in the order in which +the 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 the commit a merge between several lines of history. Initial (root) @@ -41,7 +45,7 @@ state was. OPTIONS ------- <tree>:: - An existing tree object + An existing tree object. -p <parent>:: Each `-p` indicates the id of a parent commit object. @@ -52,7 +56,8 @@ OPTIONS -F <file>:: Read the commit log message from the given file. Use `-` to read - from the standard input. + from the standard input. This can be given more than once and the + content of each file becomes its own paragraph. -S[<keyid>]:: --gpg-sign[=<keyid>]:: |