Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > Wow. That is sure one of the most complicated ways to go about it. Depends. after checking the git pages for time arguments then spoofing the time is (was!) the most obvious way to do it IMO :) Thereafter it took a few seconds to google faketime, download and implement. > IMO GIT_AUTHOR_DATE and GIT_COMMITTER_DATE (mentioned in > Documentation/git.txt, and described in Documentation/git-commit-tree.txt) > would have been the tools to use. Indeed - I forgot all about those - and I wrote the first versions of those files IIRC! The variables are not written about much more and didn't show up when I was googling for managing git timestamps/dates. Maybe they will now. And - the whole point of the email was for the archives - so thanks for the reply and the reminder/better suggestion. David - 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