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| author | brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> | 2020-01-22 03:45:40 (GMT) |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2020-01-22 20:27:08 (GMT) |
| commit | 813f6025a5094bc27df879eb0152441c4157c47e (patch) | |
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| parent | bc94e5862aed854c77d4f96da9447161ce84a824 (diff) | |
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docs: expand on possible and recommended user config options
In the section on setting author and committer information, we omit the
author.* and committer.* variables, so mention them for completeness.
In addition, guide users to the typical case: simply setting user.name
and user.email, which are recommended if one does not need complex
configuration.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-commit.txt | 7 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit.txt b/Documentation/git-commit.txt index 30c30cc..7b61c9b 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-commit.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-commit.txt @@ -482,6 +482,13 @@ 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). +The `author.name` and `committer.name` and their corresponding email options +override `user.name` and `user.email` if set and are overridden themselves by +the environment variables. + +The typical usage is to set just the `user.name` and `user.email` variables; +the other options are provided for more complex use cases. + :git-commit: 1 include::date-formats.txt[] |