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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: 乙酸鋰 <ch3cooli@gmail•com>
Cc: git <git@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: git commit --date format
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 10:10:59 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqoamq3aak.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHtLG6SPqoZJ+bc6eaHEAkEN9VAwuq+hh4OUG8opOETRQKfUyg@mail.gmail.com> ("乙酸鋰"'s message of "Mon, 13 Apr 2015 23:42:18 +0800")

乙酸鋰 <ch3cooli@gmail•com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> In git < 2.0, git commit --amend --date="" can amend commit with
> current time as author time.
> But since git 2.0, this does not work, dying with "invalid date format".
> I have to instead type git commit --amend --date="now".
> Is empty string date format no longer supported? Or will be fixed?

I think this was a fix to the overly loose parser which took any
typo (including an empty string, e.g. --date="$prevuois" that
misspels the name of a shell variable that has the timestamp) as
"now".

      reply	other threads:[~2015-04-14 17:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-13 15:42 git commit --date format 乙酸鋰
2015-04-14 17:10 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]

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