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From: "Dirk Süsserott" <newsletter@dirk.my1.cc>
To: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Q about the date format in "git commit --date=..." and such
Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2011 17:07:52 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D73B158.5040409@dirk.my1.cc> (raw)

Hello,

I frequently change a file in my repo and commit it with
"git commit -a -C deadbeef", i.e. using an older commit message. The
"-C" switch also re-uses the author timestamp of the given SHA1, which
is not what I want. So I tried the "--date=..." switch in addition,
which works fine.

Instead of giving an exact timestamp (like "--date='06.03.2011 16:50'")
I'd prefer to just say "--date=now". Is that somehow possible? If not:
would the community appreciate it, if I would try to implement this?

I imagine to translate "now" to "localtime(time(0))". Would that be good?

Dirk

             reply	other threads:[~2011-03-06 16:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-06 16:07 Dirk Süsserott [this message]
2011-03-07 16:54 ` Q about the date format in "git commit --date=..." and such Jeff King
2011-03-08  0:20   ` Junio C Hamano
2011-03-08  1:16     ` Jeff King
2011-03-08 18:51       ` Andreas Schwab
2011-03-08 19:20         ` Dirk Süsserott

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