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diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt
index 002dae625e..ec15ee8d6f 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>]::
@@ -64,7 +69,6 @@ OPTIONS
Do not GPG-sign commit, to countermand a `--gpg-sign` option
given earlier on the command line.
-
Commit Information
------------------
@@ -74,26 +78,6 @@ A commit encapsulates:
- author name, email and date
- committer name and email and the commit time.
-While parent object ids are provided on the command line, author and
-committer information is taken from the following environment variables,
-if set:
-
- GIT_AUTHOR_NAME
- GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL
- GIT_AUTHOR_DATE
- GIT_COMMITTER_NAME
- GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL
- GIT_COMMITTER_DATE
-
-(nb "<", ">" and "\n"s are stripped)
-
-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, the environment variable EMAIL, or, if that is not set,
-system user name and the hostname used for outgoing mail (taken
-from `/etc/mailname` and falling back to the fully qualified hostname when
-that file does not exist).
-
A commit comment is read from stdin. If a changelog
entry is not provided via "<" redirection, 'git commit-tree' will just wait
for one to be entered and terminated with ^D.
@@ -112,6 +96,7 @@ FILES
SEE ALSO
--------
linkgit:git-write-tree[1]
+linkgit:git-commit[1]
GIT
---