tldr/pages/common/git-commit-tree.md

git commit-tree

Low level utility to create commit objects. See also: git commit. More information: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-commit-tree.

• Create a commit object with the specified message:

git commit-tree {{tree}} -m "{{message}}"

• Create a commit object reading the message from a file (use - for stdin):

git commit-tree {{tree}} -F {{path/to/file}}

• Create a GPG-signed commit object:

git commit-tree {{tree}} -m "{{message}}" --gpg-sign

• Create a commit object with the specified parent commit object:

git commit-tree {{tree}} -m "{{message}}" -p {{parent_commit_sha}}