Re: [PATCH] Documentation/git-tag.txt: Document how to backdate tags
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Michael Olson <mwolson@gnu.org>
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- Oct 15, 2007, 22:53 UTC
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Added a new section beneath "On Automatic following" called "On Backdating Tags". This includes an explanation of when to use this method, a brief explanation of the kind of date that can be used in GIT_AUTHOR_DATE, and an example invocation of git-tag using a custom setting of GIT_AUTHOR_DATE.
Signed-off-by: Michael W. Olson <mwolson@gnu.org> ---
Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
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> On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 01:51:30PM -0400, Michael Olson wrote: > >> +On Backdating Tags >> +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> + >> +If you have imported some changes from another VCS and would like >> +to add tags for major releases of you work, it is useful to be able > > s/you/your/
Fixed; thanks.
Documentation/git-tag.txt | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++ 1 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-tag.txt b/Documentation/git-tag.txt index 990ae4f..5cc9da4 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-tag.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-tag.txt @@ -214,6 +214,27 @@ having tracking branches. Again, the heuristic to automatically follow such tags is a good thing. +On Backdating Tags +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +If you have imported some changes from another VCS and would like +to add tags for major releases of your work, it is useful to be +able to specify the date to embed inside of the tag object. The +data in the tag object affects, for example, the ordering of tags +in the gitweb interface. + +To set the date used in future tag objects, set the environment +variable GIT_AUTHOR_DATE to one or more of the date and time. The +date and time can be specified in a number of ways; the most common +is "YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM". + +An example follows. + +------------ +$ GIT_AUTHOR_DATE="2006-10-02 10:31" git tag -s v1.0.1 +------------ + + Author ------ Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
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