git-commit-tree(1)

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NAME

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git-commit-tree - Create a new commit object

SYNOPSIS

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[verse]

'git commit-tree' <tree> [(-p <parent>)...]

'git commit-tree' [(-p <parent>)...] [-S[<keyid>]] [(-m <message>)...]

[(-F <file>)...] <tree>

DESCRIPTION

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This is usually not what an end user wants to run directly. See

linkgit:git-commit[1] instead.

Creates a new commit object based on the provided tree object and

emits the new commit object id on stdout. The log message is read

from the standard input, unless `-m` or `-F` options are given.

The `-m` and `-F` options can be given any number of times, in any

order. The commit log message will be composed in the order in which

the options are given.

A commit object may have any number of parents. With exactly one

parent, it is an ordinary commit. Having more than one parent makes

the commit a merge between several lines of history. Initial (root)

commits have no parents.

While a tree represents a particular directory state of a working

directory, a commit represents that state in "time", and explains how

to get there.

Normally a commit would identify a new "HEAD" state, and while Git

doesn't care where you save the note about that state, in practice we

tend to just write the result to the file that is pointed at by

`.git/HEAD`, so that we can always see what the last committed

state was.

OPTIONS

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<tree>::

An existing tree object.

-p <parent>::

Each `-p` indicates the id of a parent commit object.

-m <message>::

A paragraph in the commit log message. This can be given more than

once and each <message> becomes its own paragraph.

-F <file>::

Read the commit log message from the given file. Use `-` to read

from the standard input. This can be given more than once and the

content of each file becomes its own paragraph.

-S[<keyid>]::

--gpg-sign[=<keyid>]::

--no-gpg-sign::

GPG-sign commits. The `keyid` argument is optional and

defaults to the committer identity; if specified, it must be

stuck to the option without a space. `--no-gpg-sign` is useful to

countermand a `--gpg-sign` option given earlier on the command line.

Commit Information

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A commit encapsulates:

- all parent object ids

- author name, email and date

- committer name and email and the commit time.

A commit comment is read from stdin. If a changelog

entry is not provided via "<" redirection, 'git commit-tree' will just wait

for one to be entered and terminated with ^D.

include::date-formats.txt[]

Discussion

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include::i18n.txt[]

FILES

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/etc/mailname

SEE ALSO

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linkgit:git-write-tree[1]

linkgit:git-commit[1]

GIT

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Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite