From 96b8d93a539f3a9f43f0fc38214db8753cac3c2e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2011 11:54:04 -0800
Subject: commit-tree: teach -m/-F options to read logs from elsewhere

Just like "git commit" does.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
---
 Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt | 16 +++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

(limited to 'Documentation')

diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt
index 02133d5fc..cfb9906bb 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
 ------------------
-- 
cgit v1.2.1