From: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Date: Wed, 02 Dec 2009 22:12:32 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] builtin-commit: add --date option
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.