Fix section about backdating tags in the git-tag docs

[git.git] / Documentation / git-tag.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/git-tag.txt b/Documentation/git-tag.txt
index 74b461f66194be5abc944c9feeb8666125955d82..b729595984b69538da5379381f399eff3b79b837 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-tag.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-tag.txt
@@ -226,14 +226,14 @@ 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
 ------------