From: Michael Olson <mwolson@gnu•org>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>, git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] Documentation/git-tag.txt: Document how to backdate tags
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 13:51:30 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lka4cllp.fsf@hariken.mwolson.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vd4w0iqd5.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Sun, 30 Sep 2007 00:06:46 -0700")
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.
Signed-off-by: Michael W. Olson <mwolson@gnu•org>
---
[Resending, this time without trying to send through Gmane and munge
Reply-To.]
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com> writes:
> Michael Olson <mwolson@gnu•org> writes:
>
>> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com> writes:
>>
>>> Wouldn't it be easier to create the tag with the desired
>>> timestamp from the beginning, by exporting GIT_COMMITTER_DATE?
>>
>> Ah, I didn't know about that environment variable.
>>
>> Would it be possible to mention that option on the git-tag manpage?
>
> Surely, I am kind of surprised if it weren't, but apparently you
> did not find it. Please make it so.
Documentation/git-tag.txt | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
1 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-tag.txt b/Documentation/git-tag.txt
index 990ae4f..2966aa2 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 you 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 <torvalds@osdl•org>,
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1.5.3.4
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-15 18:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-30 3:16 Script to backdate tags Michael Olson
2007-09-30 4:29 ` Michael Olson
2007-09-30 5:16 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-09-30 6:27 ` Michael Olson
[not found] ` <7vd4w0iqd5.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
2007-10-15 17:51 ` Michael Olson [this message]
2007-10-15 20:35 ` [PATCH] Documentation/git-tag.txt: Document how " Jeff King
2007-10-15 22:53 ` Michael Olson
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