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Re: backdated tag bug

From
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date
Apr 11, 2008, 20:36 UTC
Message-ID
<alpine.LFD.1.00.0804111333270.3143@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To
<loom.20080411T193913-700@post.gmane.org>
On Fri, 11 Apr 2008, Eric Blake wrote:
>
> According to 'git tag --help', it should be possible to create a signed, back-
> dated tag.  But I can't get it to work.  Am I doing something wrong, or is this 
> a git bug?  Shell transcript follows:

Tags don't have an "author". They have a "tagger", and it's taken from the normal committer information. So you should use GIT_COMMITTER_DATE instead of GIT_AUTHOR_DATE and it should work.

		Linus
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  4. Fix section about backdating tags in the git-tag docsBjörn Steinbrink, Apr 11, 2008

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