From bc94e5862aed854c77d4f96da9447161ce84a824 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "brian m. carlson" Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2020 03:45:39 +0000 Subject: doc: move author and committer information to git-commit(1) While at one time it made perfect sense to store information about configuring author and committer information in the documentation for git commit-tree, in modern Git that operation is seldom used. Most users will use git commit and expect to find comprehensive documentation about its use in the manual page for that command. Considering that there is significant confusion about how one is to use the user.name and user.email variables, let's put as much documentation as possible into an obvious place where users will be more likely to find it. In addition, expand the environment variables section to describe their use more fully. Even though we now describe all of the options there and in the configuration settings documentation, preserve the existing text in git-commit.txt so that people can easily reason about the ordering of the various options they can use. Explain the use of the author.* and committer.* options as well. Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano diff --git a/Documentation/config/user.txt b/Documentation/config/user.txt index 0557cbb..a1f80e8 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/user.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/user.txt @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ committer.email:: Also, all of these can be overridden by the `GIT_AUTHOR_NAME`, `GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL`, `GIT_COMMITTER_NAME`, `GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL` and `EMAIL` environment variables. - See linkgit:git-commit-tree[1] for more information. + See linkgit:git-commit[1] for more information. user.useConfigOnly:: Instruct Git to avoid trying to guess defaults for `user.email` diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt index 4b90b9c..ec15ee8 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt @@ -69,7 +69,6 @@ OPTIONS Do not GPG-sign commit, to countermand a `--gpg-sign` option given earlier on the command line. - Commit Information ------------------ @@ -79,26 +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. @@ -117,6 +96,7 @@ FILES SEE ALSO -------- linkgit:git-write-tree[1] +linkgit:git-commit[1] GIT --- diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit.txt b/Documentation/git-commit.txt index ced5a9b..30c30cc 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-commit.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-commit.txt @@ -367,9 +367,6 @@ changes to tracked files. + For more details, see the 'pathspec' entry in linkgit:gitglossary[7]. -:git-commit: 1 -include::date-formats.txt[] - EXAMPLES -------- When recording your own work, the contents of modified files in @@ -463,6 +460,30 @@ alter the order the changes are committed, because the merge should be recorded as a single commit. In fact, the command refuses to run when given pathnames (but see `-i` option). +COMMIT INFORMATION +------------------ + +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). + +:git-commit: 1 +include::date-formats.txt[] DISCUSSION ---------- diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt index b1597ac..0093c64 100644 --- a/Documentation/git.txt +++ b/Documentation/git.txt @@ -482,13 +482,36 @@ double-quotes and respecting backslash escapes. E.g., the value Git Commits ~~~~~~~~~~~ `GIT_AUTHOR_NAME`:: + The human-readable name used in the author identity when creating commit or + tag objects, or when writing reflogs. Overrides the `user.name` and + `author.name` configuration settings. + `GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL`:: + The email address used in the author identity when creating commit or + tag objects, or when writing reflogs. Overrides the `user.email` and + `author.email` configuration settings. + `GIT_AUTHOR_DATE`:: + The date used for the author identity when creating commit or tag objects, or + when writing reflogs. See linkgit:git-commit[1] for valid formats. + `GIT_COMMITTER_NAME`:: + The human-readable name used in the committer identity when creating commit or + tag objects, or when writing reflogs. Overrides the `user.name` and + `committer.name` configuration settings. + `GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL`:: + The email address used in the author identity when creating commit or + tag objects, or when writing reflogs. Overrides the `user.email` and + `committer.email` configuration settings. + `GIT_COMMITTER_DATE`:: -'EMAIL':: - see linkgit:git-commit-tree[1] + The date used for the committer identity when creating commit or tag objects, or + when writing reflogs. See linkgit:git-commit[1] for valid formats. + +`EMAIL`:: + The email address used in the author and committer identities if no other + relevant environment variable or configuration setting has been set. Git Diffs ~~~~~~~~~ -- cgit v0.10.2-6-g49f6