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diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt
index 5536668813..b64cd6a84b 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
git-commit-tree(1)
==================
-v0.1, May 2005
NAME
----
@@ -36,7 +35,7 @@ OPTIONS
An existing tree object
-p <parent commit>::
- Each '-p' indicates a the id of a parent commit object.
+ Each '-p' indicates the id of a parent commit object.
Commit Information
@@ -49,8 +48,8 @@ A commit encapsulates:
- committer name and email and the commit time.
If not provided, "git-commit-tree" uses your name, hostname and domain to
-provide author and committer info. This can be overridden using the
-following environment variables.
+provide author and committer info. This can be overridden by
+either `.git/config` file, or using the following environment variables.
GIT_AUTHOR_NAME
GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL
@@ -58,11 +57,18 @@ following environment variables.
GIT_COMMITTER_NAME
GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL
-(nb <,> and '\n's are stripped)
+(nb "<", ">" and "\n"s are stripped)
+
+In `.git/config` file, the following items are used:
+
+ [user]
+ name = "Your Name"
+ email = "your@email.address.xz"
A commit comment is read from stdin (max 999 chars). If a changelog
-entry is not provided via '<' redirection, "git-commit-tree" will just wait
-for one to be entered and terminated with ^D
+entry is not provided via "<" redirection, "git-commit-tree" will just wait
+for one to be entered and terminated with ^D.
+
Diagnostics
-----------
@@ -75,7 +81,7 @@ Your sysadmin must hate you!::
See Also
--------
-link:git-write-tree.html[git-write-tree]
+gitlink:git-write-tree[1]
Author
@@ -88,5 +94,5 @@ Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel
GIT
---
-Part of the link:git.html[git] suite
+Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite