On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 06:30:34PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: > Hi, > > The git-commit-tree man page reads: > A commit encapsulates: > > · all parent object ids > > · author name, email and date > > · committer name and email and the commit time. > If not provided, "git-commit-tree" uses your name, hostname and domain to > provide author and committer info. This can be overridden by either > .git/config file, or using the following environment variables. > (...) > > The "If not provided" part doesn't make sense. If you're not setting the > author and committer in your config or environment, how are you supposed > to provide it ? Makes sense to me. I interpreted it as: If not provided (by one of the ways I'm about to mention), the default is ... This default can be overridden by ... I can understand how it might be read differently, though. Assuming my reading is correct, might something along these lines be clearer: To find author and committer info, "git-commit-tree" first looks at these environment variables: ... If they are not set, it tries the keys user.name and user.email from the .git/config file. Finally, it falls back to using your name, hostname, and domain. Even clearer, though this might be a bit extreme, would be to not mention .git/config and say it reads the global or repository-specific keys using git-config. -- "I like talking to Rabbit. He talks about sensible things. He doesn't use long, difficult words, like Owl. He uses short, easy words, like 'What about lunch?' and 'Help yourself, Pooh.' I suppose, really, I ought to go and see Rabbit." A. A. Milne, 'The House at Pooh Corner'
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