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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-commit.txt | 7 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit.txt b/Documentation/git-commit.txt index 30c30ccd80..7b61c9ba79 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-commit.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-commit.txt @@ -482,6 +482,13 @@ 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). +The `author.name` and `committer.name` and their corresponding email options +override `user.name` and `user.email` if set and are overridden themselves by +the environment variables. + +The typical usage is to set just the `user.name` and `user.email` variables; +the other options are provided for more complex use cases. + :git-commit: 1 include::date-formats.txt[] |