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From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail•com>
To: Magnus Hjorth <magnus.hjorth@home•se>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: Committing with past date?
Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 04:12:18 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m34p51qvzv.fsf@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1220179469.5518.5.camel@magnus-desktop>

Magnus Hjorth <magnus.hjorth@home•se> writes:

> Can someone tell me how to make a git commit with a date other than the
> current. I hope there is some easier way than changing the system
> clock.. :)

See git(1), section "Environment Variables":
   git Commits
       GIT_AUTHOR_NAME, GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL, GIT_AUTHOR_DATE,
       GIT_COMMITTER_NAME, GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL, GIT_COMMITTER_DATE,
       EMAIL
              see git-commit-tree(1)

or you can use GIT_COMMITTER_IDENT, GIT_AUTHOR_IDENT.  See output
of "git var -l" to get form of it.
 
> I'm trying to port over old version history that I maintained manually
> (tarballs and changelogs) into a git repository. 

For that, I think it would be best to take a look at example
fast-import script: contrib/fast-import/import-tars.perl;
there is equivalent contrib/fast-import/import-zips.py if you
perfer either Pyhon over Perl, and/or zips over tarballs.

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
ShadeHawk on #git

  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-31 11:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-31 10:44 Committing with past date? Magnus Hjorth
2008-08-31 11:12 ` Jakub Narebski [this message]
2008-09-01 16:25   ` Magnus Hjorth
2008-09-01 19:02     ` Russ Dill
2008-09-02  0:31     ` Jakub Narebski
2008-09-02  2:42       ` Magnus Hjorth
2009-02-03  4:18         ` Similar thread Zabre

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