From: Bryan Jacobs Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2015 00:03:50 GMT Subject: git-subtree with log.date=relative Message-ID: <20150719200350.10ae4534@q3q.us> Dear git Developers, When setting log.date=relative in ~/.gitconfig, all "git subtree push" commands fail with errors like this: git push using: ../../repos/second master fatal: invalid date format: 8 minutes ago Can't copy commit 10827bbf18aa17108e07039d9c125000889a4365 I believe git subtree is making a call to git log and relying on the dates in the output being machine-readable instead of human-readable. It should pass --date=default if it wants to ensure the default date format is used. Bryan Jacobs