Kalle Olavi Niemitalo <kon@xxxxxx> writes: > In Git v1.5.4.1, Documentation/git-tag.txt advises: > >> To set the date used in future tag objects, set the environment >> variable GIT_AUTHOR_DATE to one or more of the date and time. The >> date and time can be specified in a number of ways; the most common >> is "YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM". > > But this does not work because git tag uses GIT_COMMITTER_DATE instead. > In builtin-tag.c: > >> header_len = snprintf(header_buf, sizeof(header_buf), >> "object %s\n" >> "type %s\n" >> "tag %s\n" >> "tagger %s\n\n", >> sha1_to_hex(object), >> typename(type), >> tag, >> git_committer_info(IDENT_ERROR_ON_NO_NAME)); > > i.e. it does not call git_author_info. > > The backdating section was added to git-tag.txt in 5040beff, > and builtin-tag.c already used git_committer_info at that time. > The older git-tag.sh used tagger=$(git-var GIT_COMMITTER_IDENT). > Thus it seems the bug is in the documentation, not in the code. Correct. We've always used committer ident as far as I can remember. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
