On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 02:26:14PM -0500, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Do you really want to set the date to something arbitrary, or do you > just want to set it to "now"? If the latter case, do you really just > want the recently discussed --reset-author? No, I want to set it to two days ago, for example when I forgot to commit at the end of the day and I notice it two days later before I start to work on something again. > Also, is there a good reason why GIT_AUTHOR_DATE is not respected in > this case? If not, should we simply be fixing that bug instead? GIT_AUTHOR_DATE is respected by --reset-author, just given that we have --author already, using environment variables for a user can be uncomfortable.
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