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diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit.txt b/Documentation/git-commit.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000..afcf6ef85 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/git-commit.txt @@ -0,0 +1,72 @@ +git-commit(1) +============= +v0.99.4, Aug 2005 + +NAME +---- +git-commit - Record your changes + +SYNOPSIS +-------- +'git commit' [-a] [-s] [-v] [(-c | -C) <commit> | -F <file> | -m <msg>] [-e] <file>... + +DESCRIPTION +----------- +Updates the index file for given paths, or all modified files if +'-a' is specified, and makes a commit object. The command +VISUAL and EDITOR environment variables to edit the commit log +message. + +This command can run `commit-msg`, `pre-commit`, and +`post-commit` hooks. See link:hooks.html[hooks] for more +information. + +OPTIONS +------- +-a:: + Update all paths in the index file. + +-c or -C <commit>:: + Take existing commit object, and reuse the log message + and the authorship information (including the timestamp) + when creating the commit. With '-C', the editor is not + invoked; with '-c' the user can further edit the commit + message. + +-F <file>:: + Take the commit message from the given file. Use '-' to + read the message from the standard input. + +-m <msg>:: + Use the given <msg> as the commit message. + +-s:: + Add Signed-off-by line at the end of the commit message. + +-v:: + Look for suspicious lines the commit introduces, and + abort committing if there is one. The definition of + 'suspicious lines' is currently the lines that has + trailing whitespaces, and the lines whose indentation + has a SP character immediately followed by a TAB + character. + +-e:: + The message taken from file with `-F`, command line with + `-m`, and from file with `-C` are usually used as the + commit log message unmodified. This option lets you + further edit the message taken from these sources. + +<file>...:: + Update specified paths in the index file before committing. + + +Author +------ +Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> and +Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> + + +GIT +--- +Part of the link:git.html[git] suite |