On Fri, 11 Apr 2008, Eric Blake wrote: > > According to 'git tag --help', it should be possible to create a signed, back- > dated tag. But I can't get it to work. Am I doing something wrong, or is this > a git bug? Shell transcript follows: Tags don't have an "author". They have a "tagger", and it's taken from the normal committer information. So you should use GIT_COMMITTER_DATE instead of GIT_AUTHOR_DATE and it should work. Linus -- 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