Fix section about backdating tags in the git-tag docs
The tagger is equal to the committer, not the author, so GIT_COMMITTER_DATE is the right environment variable to use, not GIT_AUTHOR_DATE. Signed-off-by: Björn Steinbrink <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@@ -226,14 +226,14 @@ the tag object affects, for example, the ordering of tags in the
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gitweb interface.
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To set the date used in future tag objects, set the environment
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-variable GIT_AUTHOR_DATE to one or more of the date and time. The
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+variable GIT_COMMITTER_DATE to one or more of the date and time. The
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date and time can be specified in a number of ways; the most common
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is "YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM".
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An example follows.
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-$ GIT_AUTHOR_DATE="2006-10-02 10:31" git tag -s v1.0.1
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+$ GIT_COMMITTER_DATE="2006-10-02 10:31" git tag -s v1.0.1
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