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authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2013-01-28 11:12:31 -0800
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2013-01-28 11:12:31 -0800
commita94214b75e2e763d27a85f91066ad90f291206fc (patch)
tree346f0e62c52b936f231d62de562abbf61b93125b
parentc1640aa5d3696d8966b06689ac8746918453081e (diff)
parentbe33414b186b3a7abbc1e37a0aa36b6b4d0d0e74 (diff)
downloadgit-a94214b75e2e763d27a85f91066ad90f291206fc.tar.gz
Merge branch 'pe/doc-email-env-is-trumped-by-config' into maint
* pe/doc-email-env-is-trumped-by-config: git-commit-tree(1): correct description of defaults
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt
index 6d5a04c83b..a221169515 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).