From: Björn Steinbrink Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:52:07 +0000 (+0200) Subject: Fix section about backdating tags in the git-tag docs X-Git-Tag: v1.5.5.1~15^2~2 X-Git-Url: https://git.tokkee.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=055b66158c984c4e902735ab2a1a188509423f43;p=git.git Fix section about backdating tags in the git-tag docs 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 Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- diff --git a/Documentation/git-tag.txt b/Documentation/git-tag.txt index 74b461f66..b72959598 100644 --- 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 ------------