From: Rogan Dawes <rogan@dawes.za.net>
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:47:03 GMT
Subject: Re: date change of commit?
Message-ID: <4AE9AAE7.2080404@dawes.za.net>
In-Reply-To: <e4a904790910290555n61bca296g3624c1aced50ed85@mail.gmail.com>

Alex K wrote:
> 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

> 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).
>>