Re: git annotate with date option not working?

Jeff King wrote:

Having said that, this would be really easy to support, and I don't
think would have any negative compatibility consequences, as long as we
don't support blame.date. But I don't think we're breaking anybody
relying on "git annotate --date=whatever" being silently ignored, as
that option has never done anything useful.

The patch would look like this:

Looks obviously good to me.  Chengwei (and anyone else), would you be
interested in moving this forward by adding tests and perhaps
documentation?

Thanks.