Re: filter-branch --env-filter GIT_AUTHOR_DATE

From: Tuncer Ayaz <tuncer.ayaz@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 19, 2011, 10:08 UTC
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=TAhYeWbyocag2myBXA2TfH7_r=hmam51YKbhm@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4D368C49.3080105@viscovery.net>

On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 8:01 AM, Johannes Sixt wrote:

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> Am 1/18/2011 17:43, schrieb Tuncer Ayaz:
>> To fix invalid timezone info in a repo I ran
>> git filter-branch --env-filter '
>>   GIT_AUTHOR_DATE=`echo ${GIT_AUTHOR_DATE}|sed s/+0000/-0800/`' HEAD
>>
>> This fixed the invalid entries but the new timezone is -0700
>> instead of -0800. Is this expected?
>
> Parse error. You fixed it, but it is not fixed? So what?

Fixed because it is not +0000 anymore. Surprised because the new timezone is -0700 and not -0800.

> What do you mean by "the new timezone is"? Do you mean "...is reported
> as"? If so, reported by which tools?

git log git cat-file $REV

>> git version 1.7.4.rc2
>
> I tried your command, but the timezone was changed in the expected way.

How did you check?