From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:36:04 GMT
Subject: Re: backdated tag bug
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