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diff --git a/Documentation/git-tag.txt b/Documentation/git-tag.txt index 22a23bf96f..10d3e3fa95 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 your 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>, |