From: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
To: git@vger.kernel.org, gitster@pobox.com
Subject: [PATCH] git-commit-tree(1): correct description of defaults
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 07:29:58 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1357820998.10754.6.camel@vanquo.pezone.net> (raw)
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@eisentraut.org>
---
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
next reply other threads:[~2013-01-10 12:36 UTC|newest]
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2013-01-10 12:29 Peter Eisentraut [this message]
2013-01-10 18:33 ` [PATCH] git-commit-tree(1): correct description of defaults Junio C Hamano
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