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Re: [PATCH] builtin-commit: add --date option

From
Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Date
Dec 2, 2009, 22:12 UTC
Message-ID
<20091202221232.GF31763@genesis.frugalware.org>
In-Reply-To
<20091202192614.GD30778@coredump.intra.peff.net>
On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 02:26:14PM -0500, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> Do you really want to set the date to something arbitrary, or do you
> just want to set it to "now"? If the latter case, do you really just
> want the recently discussed --reset-author?

No, I want to set it to two days ago, for example when I forgot to commit at the end of the day and I notice it two days later before I start to work on something again.

> Also, is there a good reason why GIT_AUTHOR_DATE is not respected in
> this case?  If not, should we simply be fixing that bug instead?

GIT_AUTHOR_DATE is respected by --reset-author, just given that we have --author already, using environment variables for a user can be uncomfortable.

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  1. builtin-commit: add --date optionMiklos Vajna, Dec 1, 2009
  2. Miklos VajnaDec 2, 2009
  3. Junio C HamanoDec 2, 2009
  4. Junio C HamanoDec 2, 2009
  5. Miklos VajnaDec 2, 2009
  6. Jeff KingDec 2, 2009
  7. Miklos VajnaDec 2, 2009
  8. Jeff KingDec 2, 2009
  9. Junio C HamanoDec 2, 2009
  10. Miklos VajnaDec 2, 2009
  11. Miklos VajnaDec 2, 2009
  12. Jeff KingDec 2, 2009

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