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Re: date change of commit?

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AKAlex K <spaceoutlet@gmail.com>
Date
Oct 29, 2009, 12:55 UTC
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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.

2009/10/27 Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>:
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> 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).
>
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Message 5 of 7 in “date change of commit?”
  1. Alex KOct 25, 2009
  2. Matthieu MoyOct 25, 2009
  3. Alex KOct 27, 2009
  4. Miklos VajnaOct 27, 2009
  5. Alex KOct 29, 2009
  6. Rogan DawesOct 29, 2009
  7. Thomas RastOct 29, 2009

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