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Re: git commit --date format

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Apr 14, 2015, 17:10 UTC
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乙酸鋰 <ch3cooli@gmail.com> writes:
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> Hi,
>
> In git < 2.0, git commit --amend --date="" can amend commit with
> current time as author time.
> But since git 2.0, this does not work, dying with "invalid date format".
> I have to instead type git commit --amend --date="now".
> Is empty string date format no longer supported? Or will be fixed?

I think this was a fix to the overly loose parser which took any typo (including an empty string, e.g. --date="$prevuois" that misspels the name of a shell variable that has the timestamp) as "now".

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