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GIT-COMMIT-TREE(1) Git Manual GIT-COMMIT-TREE(1)
NAME top
git-commit-tree - Create a new commit objectSYNOPSIS top
_git commit-tree_ <tree> [(-p <parent>)...]
_git commit-tree_ [(-p <parent>)...] [-S[<keyid>]] [(-m <message>)...]
[(-F <file>)...] <tree>DESCRIPTION top
This is usually not what an end user wants to run directly. See
[git-commit(1)](../man1/git-commit.1.html) 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 top
<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 top
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.DATE FORMATS top
The **GIT_AUTHOR_DATE** and **GIT_COMMITTER_DATE** environment variables
support the following date formats:
Git internal format
It is _<unix-timestamp> <time-zone-offset>_, where
_<unix-timestamp>_ is the number of seconds since the UNIX
epoch. _<time-zone-offset>_ is a positive or negative offset
from UTC. For example CET (which is 1 hour ahead of UTC) is
**+0100**.
RFC 2822
The standard date format as described by RFC 2822, for example
**Thu, 07 Apr 2005 22:13:13 +0200**.
ISO 8601
Time and date specified by the ISO 8601 standard, for example
**2005-04-07T22:13:13**. The parser accepts a space instead of the
**T** character as well. Fractional parts of a second will be
ignored, for example **2005-04-07T22:13:13.019** will be treated
as **2005-04-07T22:13:13**.
**Note**
In addition, the date part is accepted in the following
formats: **YYYY.MM.DD**, **MM/DD/YYYY** and **DD.MM.YYYY**.DISCUSSION top
Git is to some extent character encoding agnostic.
• The contents of the blob objects are uninterpreted sequences
of bytes. There is no encoding translation at the core level.
• Path names are encoded in UTF-8 normalization form C. This
applies to tree objects, the index file, ref names, as well as
path names in command line arguments, environment variables
and config files (**.git/config** (see [git-config(1)](../man1/git-config.1.html)),
[gitignore(5)](../man5/gitignore.5.html), [gitattributes(5)](../man5/gitattributes.5.html) and [gitmodules(5)](../man5/gitmodules.5.html)).
Note that Git at the core level treats path names simply as
sequences of non-NUL bytes, there are no path name encoding
conversions (except on Mac and Windows). Therefore, using
non-ASCII path names will mostly work even on platforms and
file systems that use legacy extended ASCII encodings.
However, repositories created on such systems will not work
properly on UTF-8-based systems (e.g. Linux, Mac, Windows) and
vice versa. Additionally, many Git-based tools simply assume
path names to be UTF-8 and will fail to display other
encodings correctly.
• Commit log messages are typically encoded in UTF-8, but other
extended ASCII encodings are also supported. This includes
ISO-8859-x, CP125x and many others, but _not_ UTF-16/32, EBCDIC
and CJK multi-byte encodings (GBK, Shift-JIS, Big5, EUC-x,
CP9xx etc.).
Although we encourage that the commit log messages are encoded in
UTF-8, both the core and Git Porcelain are designed not to force
UTF-8 on projects. If all participants of a particular project
find it more convenient to use legacy encodings, Git does not
forbid it. However, there are a few things to keep in mind.
1. **git commit** and **git commit-tree** issue a warning if the commit
log message given to it does not look like a valid UTF-8
string, unless you explicitly say your project uses a legacy
encoding. The way to say this is to have **i18n.commitEncoding**
in **.git/config** file, like this:
[i18n]
commitEncoding = ISO-8859-1
Commit objects created with the above setting record the value
of **i18n.commitEncoding** in their **encoding** header. This is to
help other people who look at them later. Lack of this header
implies that the commit log message is encoded in UTF-8.
2. **git log**, **git show**, **git blame** and friends look at the **encoding**
header of a commit object, and try to re-code the log message
into UTF-8 unless otherwise specified. You can specify the
desired output encoding with **i18n.logOutputEncoding** in
**.git/config** file, like this:
[i18n]
logOutputEncoding = ISO-8859-1
If you do not have this configuration variable, the value of
**i18n.commitEncoding** is used instead.
Note that we deliberately chose not to re-code the commit log
message when a commit is made to force UTF-8 at the commit object
level, because re-coding to UTF-8 is not necessarily a reversible
operation.FILES top
/etc/mailnameSEE ALSO top
[git-write-tree(1)](../man1/git-write-tree.1.html) [git-commit(1)](../man1/git-commit.1.html)GIT top
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