From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Yann Droneaud Subject: git merge --date --author Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2014 11:30:15 +0100 Organization: OPTEYA Message-ID: <1394188215.3257.17.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Yann Droneaud To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Mar 07 11:31:25 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WLs3n-0002QF-PW for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Mar 2014 11:31:24 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751296AbaCGKbH (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Mar 2014 05:31:07 -0500 Received: from smtpfb2-g21.free.fr ([212.27.42.10]:54649 "EHLO smtpfb2-g21.free.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751053AbaCGKbF (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Mar 2014 05:31:05 -0500 Received: from smtp5-g21.free.fr (smtp5-g21.free.fr [212.27.42.5]) by smtpfb2-g21.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B9EACA982A for ; Fri, 7 Mar 2014 11:31:00 +0100 (CET) Received: from [192.168.20.20] (unknown [37.163.154.120]) by smtp5-g21.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4451D48148; Fri, 7 Mar 2014 11:30:18 +0100 (CET) X-Mailer: Evolution 3.10.4 (3.10.4-1.fc20) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, I was trying to rebuild some history and found myself trying to use some options with git merge which are available in git commit: git merge \ --date "2013-12-31 23:59:59 +0000" \ --author "Happy New Year " \ current-year But unfortunately, unlike git commit, git merge doesn't support either --date or --author. I can work around with environment variables: GIT_AUTHOR_DATE="2013-12-31 23:59:59 +0000" \ GIT_AUTHOR_NAME="Happy New Year" \ GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL="happy.new-year@gregorian.calendar" \ git merge current-year But I'd like to know if there's a specific reason for git merge to not support --date and --author ? Regards. -- Yann Droneaud OPTEYA