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-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt | 16 |
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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 ------------------ |