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diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit.txt b/Documentation/git-commit.txt index 72f96fcfd5..53b64fa595 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-commit.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-commit.txt @@ -8,8 +8,8 @@ git-commit - Record your changes SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git-commit' [-a] [-s] [-v] [(-c | -C) <commit> | -F <file> | -m <msg>] - [-e] [--] <file>... +'git-commit' [-a] [-i] [-s] [-v] [(-c | -C) <commit> | -F <file> | -m <msg>] + [-e] [--author <author>] [--] <file>... DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -40,6 +40,10 @@ OPTIONS Take the commit message from the given file. Use '-' to read the message from the standard input. +--author <author>:: + Override the author name used in the commit. Use + `A U Thor <author@example.com>` format. + -m <msg>:: Use the given <msg> as the commit message. @@ -63,17 +67,66 @@ OPTIONS commit log message unmodified. This option lets you further edit the message taken from these sources. +-i|--include:: + Instead of committing only the files specified on the + command line, update them in the index file and then + commit the whole index. This is the traditional + behaviour. + --:: Do not interpret any more arguments as options. <file>...:: - Update specified paths in the index file before committing. - + Commit only the files specified on the command line. + This format cannot be used during a merge, nor when the + index and the latest commit does not match on the + specified paths to avoid confusion. If you make a commit and then found a mistake immediately after that, you can recover from it with gitlink:git-reset[1]. +Discussion +---------- + +`git commit` without _any_ parameter commits the tree structure +recorded by the current index file. This is a whole-tree commit +even the command is invoked from a subdirectory. + +`git commit --include paths...` is equivalent to + + git update-index --remove paths... + git commit + +That is, update the specified paths to the index and then commit +the whole tree. + +`git commit paths...` largely bypasses the index file and +commits only the changes made to the specified paths. It has +however several safety valves to prevent confusion. + +. It refuses to run during a merge (i.e. when + `$GIT_DIR/MERGE_HEAD` exists), and reminds trained git users + that the traditional semantics now needs -i flag. + +. It refuses to run if named `paths...` are different in HEAD + and the index (ditto about reminding). Added paths are OK. + This is because an earlier `git diff` (not `git diff HEAD`) + would have shown the differences since the last `git + update-index paths...` to the user, and an inexperienced user + may mistakenly think that the changes between the index and + the HEAD (i.e. earlier changes made before the last `git + update-index paths...` was done) are not being committed. + +. It reads HEAD commit into a temporary index file, updates the + specified `paths...` and makes a commit. At the same time, + the real index file is also updated with the same `paths...`. + +`git commit --all` updates the index file with _all_ changes to +the working tree, and makes a whole-tree commit, regardless of +which subdirectory the command is invoked in. + + Author ------ Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> and |