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From: "René Scharfe" <rene.scharfe@lsrfire•ath.cx>
To: Guido Ostkamp <git@ostkamp•fastmail.fm>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: How to set git commit timestamp
Date: Sun, 06 May 2007 19:26:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <463E0FDE.3000504@lsrfire.ath.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0705061759210.8165@bianca.dialin.t-online.de>

Guido Ostkamp schrieb:
> Hello,
> 
> does somebody know a method to specify a timestamp for a 'git commit'?
> 
> I am writing a tool to convert from another SCM to git and need to
> replay all checkins. I know how to set the log message and the author,
> but there appears to be no command option for the timestamp (Mercurial
> for example, has a 'hg commit -d date <file>' syntax for this).

You can use the environment variable GIT_COMMITTER_DATE to force a
specific commit date.  Please see the man page of git-commit-tree for
(some) more info.

René

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-05-06 17:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-06 16:03 How to set git commit timestamp Guido Ostkamp
2007-05-06 16:41 ` Alex Riesen
2007-05-06 17:26 ` René Scharfe [this message]
2007-05-06 19:51 ` Robin Rosenberg
2007-05-08  1:38   ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-05-08  1:54     ` Jakub Narebski
2007-05-08  1:57       ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-05-08 11:29         ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-05-11 10:58           ` Jakub Narebski

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