From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: backdated tag bug Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:36:04 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Eric Blake X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Apr 11 22:37:07 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JkPzY-0007Ja-Po for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Fri, 11 Apr 2008 22:37:01 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759511AbYDKUgR (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:36:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759485AbYDKUgQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:36:16 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:33255 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759292AbYDKUgQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:36:16 -0400 Received: from imap1.linux-foundation.org (imap1.linux-foundation.org [140.211.169.55]) by smtp1.linux-foundation.org (8.14.2/8.13.5/Debian-3ubuntu1.1) with ESMTP id m3BKa5Gp021649 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:36:06 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by imap1.linux-foundation.org (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.5/Debian-3ubuntu1.1) with ESMTP id m3BKa4OR003227; Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:36:04 -0700 In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (LFD 882 2007-12-20) X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.429 required=5 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.4-osdl_revision__1.47__ X-MIMEDefang-Filter: lf$Revision: 1.188 $ X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.63 on 140.211.169.13 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Fri, 11 Apr 2008, Eric Blake wrote: > > According to 'git tag --help', it should be possible to create a signed, back- > dated tag. But I can't get it to work. Am I doing something wrong, or is this > a git bug? Shell transcript follows: Tags don't have an "author". They have a "tagger", and it's taken from the normal committer information. So you should use GIT_COMMITTER_DATE instead of GIT_AUTHOR_DATE and it should work. Linus