6 git-commit-tree - Creates a new commit object
11 'git-commit-tree' <tree> [-p <parent commit>]\* < changelog
15 Creates a new commit object based on the provided tree object and
16 emits the new commit object id on stdout. If no parent is given then
17 it is considered to be an initial tree.
19 A commit object usually has 1 parent (a commit after a change) or up
20 to 16 parents. More than one parent represents a merge of branches
23 While a tree represents a particular directory state of a working
24 directory, a commit represents that state in "time", and explains how
27 Normally a commit would identify a new "HEAD" state, and while git
28 doesn't care where you save the note about that state, in practice we
29 tend to just write the result to the file that is pointed at by
30 `.git/HEAD`, so that we can always see what the last committed
36 An existing tree object
39 Each '-p' indicates the id of a parent commit object.
45 A commit encapsulates:
47 - all parent object ids
48 - author name, email and date
49 - committer name and email and the commit time.
51 If not provided, "git-commit-tree" uses your name, hostname and domain to
52 provide author and committer info. This can be overridden by
53 either `.git/config` file, or using the following environment variables.
61 (nb "<", ">" and "\n"s are stripped)
63 In `.git/config` file, the following items are used for GIT_AUTHOR_NAME and
68 email = "your@email.address.xz"
70 A commit comment is read from stdin (max 999 chars). If a changelog
71 entry is not provided via "<" redirection, "git-commit-tree" will just wait
72 for one to be entered and terminated with ^D.
77 You don't exist. Go away!::
78 The passwd(5) gecos field couldn't be read
79 Your parents must have hated you!::
80 The password(5) gecos field is longer than a giant static buffer.
81 Your sysadmin must hate you!::
82 The password(5) name field is longer than a giant static buffer.
86 gitlink:git-write-tree[1]
91 Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
95 Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
99 Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite