From 5040beff0bacac79b305fbfa4df71e99c2f13ed8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Olson Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 13:51:30 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Documentation/git-tag.txt: Document how to backdate tags Added a new section beneath "On Automatic following" called "On Backdating Tags". This includes an explanation of when to use this method, a brief explanation of the kind of date that can be used in GIT_AUTHOR_DATE, and an example invocation of git-tag using a custom setting of GIT_AUTHOR_DATE. [sp: Corrected s/you/your/, noticed by Jeff King] Signed-off-by: Michael W. Olson Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce --- Documentation/git-tag.txt | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/git-tag.txt b/Documentation/git-tag.txt index 22a23bf96..10d3e3fa9 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-tag.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-tag.txt @@ -214,6 +214,27 @@ having tracking branches. Again, the heuristic to automatically follow such tags is a good thing. +On Backdating Tags +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +If you have imported some changes from another VCS and would like +to add tags for major releases of your work, it is useful to be able +to specify the date to embed inside of the tag object. The data in +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 +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 +------------ + + Author ------ Written by Linus Torvalds , -- 2.30.2