The tagger is equal to the committer, not the author, so GIT_COMMITTER_DATE is the right environment variable to use, not GIT_AUTHOR_DATE. Signed-off-by: Björn Steinbrink <B.Steinbrink@xxxxxx> --- Documentation/git-tag.txt | 4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-tag.txt b/Documentation/git-tag.txt index 4b6fd90..9712392 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-tag.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-tag.txt @@ -233,14 +233,14 @@ the tag object affects, for example, the ordering of tags in the gitweb interface. 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 +variable GIT_COMMITTER_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". An example follows. ------------ -$ GIT_AUTHOR_DATE="2006-10-02 10:31" git tag -s v1.0.1 +$ GIT_COMMITTER_DATE="2006-10-02 10:31" git tag -s v1.0.1 ------------ -- 1.5.5.rc3.7.gba133 -- 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