The old phrasing indicated that the EMAIL environment variable takes precedence over the user.email configuration setting, but it is the other way around. Signed-off-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt index 6d5a04c..a221169 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt @@ -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). -- 1.7.10.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html