From: Alex K Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:55:36 GMT Subject: Re: date change of commit? Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20091027122156.GD6115@genesis.frugalware.org> 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 : > On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 10:41:47AM +0100, Alex K 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). >