--subject, -s="SUBJECT"
One line subject. (optional)
--body, -m="BODY"
Full description. (optional)
--body-file, -F="FILE"
Full commit description from a file. (optional)
--editor, -e
Open a text editor for the commit description. It will
use OSTREE_EDITOR, VISUAL, EDITOR, or vi, in descending order of preference.
The commit will be aborted if the message is left empty.
--branch, -b="BRANCH"
Branch. Required, unless --orphan is given.
--parent="COMMIT"
Parent checksum or "none" to explicitly use no
parent. If not specified, BRANCH is used as parent (no parent in case BRANCH
does not exist).
--tree="dir=PATH" or "tar=TARFILE" or
"ref=COMMIT"
Overlay the given argument as a tree. When committing an
archive, the TARFILE can be specified as - to read the archive from standard
input.
--base="REV"
Start from the content in a commit. This differs from
--tree=ref=REV in that no commit modifiers are applied. This is usually what
you want when creating a derived commit. This is also used for
--selinux-policy-from-base.
--add-metadata-string="KEY=VALUE"
Add a key/value pair to metadata. Can be specified
multiple times.
--add-metadata="KEY=VALUE"
Add a key/value pair to metadata, where the KEY is a
string, and VALUE is g_variant_parse() formatted. Can be specified multiple
times.
--keep-metadata="KEY"
Keep metadata KEY and its associated VALUE from parent.
Can be specified multiple times.
--add-detached-metadata-string="KEY=VALUE"
Add a key/value pair to detached metadata.
--owner-uid="UID"
Set file ownership user id.
--owner-gid="GID"
Set file ownership group id.
--no-xattrs
Do not import extended attributes.
--link-checkout-speedup
Optimize for commits of trees composed of hardlinks into
the repository.
--tar-autocreate-parents
When loading tar archives, automatically create parent
directories as needed.
--skip-if-unchanged
If the contents are unchanged from previous commit, do
nothing.
--consume
When committing from a local directory (i.e. not an
archive or --tree=ref), assume ownership of the content. This may simply
involve deleting it, but if possible, the content may simply be rename()ed
into the repository rather than creating a new copy.
--statoverride="PATH"
File containing list of modifications to make permissions
(file mode, followed by space, followed by file path).
--skip-list="PATH"
File containing list of file paths to skip (one path per
line).
--table-output
Output more information in a KEY: VALUE format.
--generate-sizes
Generate size information along with commit
metadata.
--gpg-sign="KEY-ID"
GPG Key ID with which to sign the commit (if have GPGME -
GNU Privacy Guard Made Easy).
--gpg-homedir="HOMEDIR"
GPG home directory to use when looking for keyrings (if
have GPGME - GNU Privacy Guard Made Easy).
--timestamp="TIMESTAMP"
Override the timestamp of the commit to TIMESTAMP.
--orphan
Create a commit without writing to a ref (branch)
--fsync="POLICY"
POLICY is a boolean which specifies whether fsync should
be used or not. Default to true.
-s, --sign-type
Use particular signature engine. Currently available
ed25519 and dummy signature types. The default is ed25519.
--sign="KEY-ID"
There KEY-ID is:
for ed25519:
base64-encoded secret key for commit signing.
for dummy:
ASCII-string used as secret key.