Re: [PATCH] builtin-commit: add --date option

On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 02:26:14PM -0500, Jeff King [off-list ref] wrote:

Do you really want to set the date to something arbitrary, or do you
just want to set it to "now"? If the latter case, do you really just
want the recently discussed --reset-author?

No, I want to set it to two days ago, for example when I forgot to
commit at the end of the day and I notice it two days later before I
start to work on something again.

Also, is there a good reason why GIT_AUTHOR_DATE is not respected in
this case?  If not, should we simply be fixing that bug instead?

GIT_AUTHOR_DATE is respected by --reset-author, just given that we have
--author already, using environment variables for a user can be
uncomfortable.