[PATCH] Fix section about backdating tags in the git-tag docs
- From
Björn Steinbrink <b.steinbrink@gmx.de>
- Date
- Apr 11, 2008, 20:52 UTC
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- <20080411205207.GA18531@atjola.homenet>
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- <loom.20080411T193913-700@post.gmane.org>
The tagger is equal to the committer, not the author, so GIT_COMMITTER_DATE is the right environment variable to use, not GIT_AUTHOR_DATE.
Signed-off-by: Björn Steinbrink <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de> --- Documentation/git-tag.txt | 4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-tag.txt b/Documentation/git-tag.txt index 4b6fd90..9712392 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-tag.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-tag.txt @@ -233,14 +233,14 @@ the tag object affects, for example, the ordering of tags in the gitweb interface. To set the date used in future tag objects, set the environment -variable GIT_AUTHOR_DATE to one or more of the date and time. The +variable GIT_COMMITTER_DATE to one or more of the date and time. The date and time can be specified in a number of ways; the most common is "YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM". An example follows. ------------ -$ GIT_AUTHOR_DATE="2006-10-02 10:31" git tag -s v1.0.1 +$ GIT_COMMITTER_DATE="2006-10-02 10:31" git tag -s v1.0.1 ------------
-- 1.5.5.rc3.7.gba133