Re: date change of commit?
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> And how do you actually set those variables? Sorry to ask such a
> trivial question but it's been an hour that i'm going through the doc
> for such a simple feature. I thought those were environment variables
> ... but they are not seen under git var -l. Thank you.
>
As you suspected, they are environment variables.
i.e. :
$ GIT_AUTHOR_DATE="1112911993 -0700" git commit x
Hope that helps.
Rogan
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> 2009/10/27 Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>:
>> On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 10:41:47AM +0100, Alex K <spaceoutlet@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Thank you. And how would you use git-filter-branch to create another
>>> branch with a different time stamp? Is it possible to commit under a
>>> different time stamp than the one provided by your default local time?
>> You can set GIT_AUTHOR_DATE and GIT_COMMITTER_DATE. Both expect a format
>> like: "1112911993 -0700" (unix timestamp + timezone info).
>>