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1 | git-commit-tree(1) |
2 | ================== | |
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3 | |
4 | NAME | |
5 | ---- | |
c3f0baac | 6 | git-commit-tree - Create a new commit object |
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7 | |
8 | ||
9 | SYNOPSIS | |
10 | -------- | |
7791a1d9 | 11 | [verse] |
33e8fc87 | 12 | 'git commit-tree' <tree> [(-p <parent>)...] |
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13 | 'git commit-tree' [(-p <parent>)...] [-S[<keyid>]] [(-m <message>)...] |
14 | [(-F <file>)...] <tree> | |
15 | ||
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16 | |
17 | DESCRIPTION | |
18 | ----------- | |
5cb545fa | 19 | This is usually not what an end user wants to run directly. See |
5162e697 | 20 | linkgit:git-commit[1] instead. |
5cb545fa | 21 | |
2cf565c5 | 22 | Creates a new commit object based on the provided tree object and |
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23 | emits the new commit object id on stdout. The log message is read |
24 | from the standard input, unless `-m` or `-F` options are given. | |
2cf565c5 | 25 | |
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26 | The `-m` and `-F` options can be given any number of times, in any |
27 | order. The commit log message will be composed in the order in which | |
28 | the options are given. | |
29 | ||
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30 | A commit object may have any number of parents. With exactly one |
31 | parent, it is an ordinary commit. Having more than one parent makes | |
32 | the commit a merge between several lines of history. Initial (root) | |
33 | commits have no parents. | |
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34 | |
35 | While a tree represents a particular directory state of a working | |
36 | directory, a commit represents that state in "time", and explains how | |
37 | to get there. | |
38 | ||
2de9b711 | 39 | Normally a commit would identify a new "HEAD" state, and while Git |
2cf565c5 | 40 | doesn't care where you save the note about that state, in practice we |
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41 | tend to just write the result to the file that is pointed at by |
42 | `.git/HEAD`, so that we can always see what the last committed | |
43 | state was. | |
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44 | |
45 | OPTIONS | |
46 | ------- | |
47 | <tree>:: | |
cbdeab98 | 48 | An existing tree object. |
2cf565c5 | 49 | |
96b8d93a | 50 | -p <parent>:: |
23f8239b | 51 | Each `-p` indicates the id of a parent commit object. |
a6080a0a | 52 | |
96b8d93a | 53 | -m <message>:: |
b4ab1980 | 54 | A paragraph in the commit log message. This can be given more than |
96b8d93a JH |
55 | once and each <message> becomes its own paragraph. |
56 | ||
57 | -F <file>:: | |
58 | Read the commit log message from the given file. Use `-` to read | |
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59 | from the standard input. This can be given more than once and the |
60 | content of each file becomes its own paragraph. | |
96b8d93a | 61 | |
df45cb3e | 62 | -S[<keyid>]:: |
55ca3f99 | 63 | --gpg-sign[=<keyid>]:: |
4369d3a0 | 64 | --no-gpg-sign:: |
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65 | GPG-sign commits. The `keyid` argument is optional and |
66 | defaults to the committer identity; if specified, it must be | |
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67 | stuck to the option without a space. `--no-gpg-sign` is useful to |
68 | countermand a `--gpg-sign` option given earlier on the command line. | |
55ca3f99 | 69 | |
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70 | Commit Information |
71 | ------------------ | |
72 | ||
73 | A commit encapsulates: | |
74 | ||
75 | - all parent object ids | |
76 | - author name, email and date | |
77 | - committer name and email and the commit time. | |
78 | ||
a82830a4 | 79 | A commit comment is read from stdin. If a changelog |
0b444cdb | 80 | entry is not provided via "<" redirection, 'git commit-tree' will just wait |
df8baa42 | 81 | for one to be entered and terminated with ^D. |
2cf565c5 | 82 | |
788070a2 | 83 | include::date-formats.txt[] |
5773c9f2 | 84 | |
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85 | Discussion |
86 | ---------- | |
87 | ||
88 | include::i18n.txt[] | |
89 | ||
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90 | FILES |
91 | ----- | |
92 | /etc/mailname | |
93 | ||
56ae8df5 | 94 | SEE ALSO |
c1bdacf9 | 95 | -------- |
5162e697 | 96 | linkgit:git-write-tree[1] |
bc94e586 | 97 | linkgit:git-commit[1] |
2cf565c5 | 98 | |
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99 | GIT |
100 | --- | |
9e1f0a85 | 101 | Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite |