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1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt index 6d5a04c83..86ef56e7c 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ While a tree represents a particular directory state of a working directory, a commit represents that state in "time", and explains how to get there. -Normally a commit would identify a new "HEAD" state, and while git +Normally a commit would identify a new "HEAD" state, and while Git doesn't care where you save the note about that state, in practice we tend to just write the result to the file that is pointed at by `.git/HEAD`, so that we can always see what the last committed @@ -72,13 +72,13 @@ if set: GIT_COMMITTER_NAME GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL GIT_COMMITTER_DATE - EMAIL (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, system user name and the hostname used for outgoing mail (taken +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). |