On Wed, Apr 1, 2020 at 3:27 PM Taylor Blau <me@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 01, 2020 at 06:11:35PM +0000, Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget wrote: > > - git commit-graph write --reachable --split --size-multiple=10 --expire-time=1980-01-01 && > > + touch -m -t 201801010000.00 $graphdir/extra.graph && > > + git commit-graph write --reachable --split --size-multiple=10 --expire-time=2019-01-01 && > > Could this be written instead as: > > touch -m -t $(date -r $test_tick +"%Y%m%d%H%M.%S") $graphdir/extra.graph && > test_tick && This won't work with GNU 'date' command which doesn't understand "-r<number>" (it understands only "-r<reference-file>").