Hi William, On Tue, 29 Jan 2019, William Hubbs wrote: > diff --git a/Documentation/config/user.txt b/Documentation/config/user.txt > index b5b2ba1199..8b31b5fa31 100644 > --- a/Documentation/config/user.txt > +++ b/Documentation/config/user.txt > @@ -1,12 +1,19 @@ > -user.email:: > - Your email address to be recorded in any newly created commits. > - Can be overridden by the `GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL`, `GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL`, and > - `EMAIL` environment variables. See linkgit:git-commit-tree[1]. > - > user.name:: > - Your full name to be recorded in any newly created commits. > - Can be overridden by the `GIT_AUTHOR_NAME` and `GIT_COMMITTER_NAME` > - environment variables. See linkgit:git-commit-tree[1]. > +user.email:: > +author.name:: > +author.email:: > +committer.name:: > +committer.email:: > + The `user.name` and `user.email` variables determine what ends > + up in the `author` and `committer` field of commit > + objects. > + If you need the `author` or `committer` to be different, the > + `author.name`, `author.email`, `committer.name` or > + `committer.email` variables can be set. > + Also, all of these can be overridden by the `GIT_AUTHOR_NAME`, > + `GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL`, `GIT_COMMITTER_NAME` and > + `GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL` environment variables. > + See linkgit:git-commit-tree[1] for more information. This no longer talks about the `EMAIL` variable. Maybe we can add that back? The rest looks very clean to me. Thanks, Johannes