NAME

       datalad check-dates - find repository dates that are more recent than a reference date.

SYNOPSIS

       datalad check-dates [-h] [-D DATE] [--rev REVISION] [--annex {all|tree|none}] [--no-tags] [--older] [PATH
              [PATH ...]]

DESCRIPTION

       The  main  purpose of this tool is to find "leaked" real dates in repositories that are configured to use
       fake dates. It checks dates from three sources: (1) commit timestamps (author and committer  dates),  (2)
       timestamps within files of the "git-annex" branch, and (3) the timestamps of annotated tags.

OPTIONS

       PATH   Root directory in which to search for Git repositories. The current working directory will be used
              by default. Constraints: value must be a string

       -h, -\-help, -\-help-np
              show  this  help message. --help-np forcefully disables the use of a pager for displaying the help
              message

       -D DATE, -\-reference-date DATE
              Compare dates to this date. If dateutil is installed, this value can be any format that its parser
              recognizes. Otherwise, it should be a unix timestamp that starts with a  "@".  The  default  value
              corresponds  to  01  Jan,  2018  00:00:00  -0000.  Constraints:  value  must be a string [Default:
              '@1514764800']

       -\-rev REVISION
              Search timestamps from commits that are reachable from REVISION. Any revision  specification  sup‐
              ported  by  git  log, including flags like --all and --tags, can be used. This option can be given
              multiple times.

       -\-annex {all|tree|none}
              Mode for "git-annex" branch search. If 'all', all blobs within the  branch  are  searched.  'tree'
              limits  the  search to blobs that are referenced by the tree at the tip of the branch. 'none' dis‐
              ables search of "git-annex" blobs. Constraints: value must be one of ('all', 'tree', 'none')  [De‐
              fault: 'all']

       -\-no-tags
              Don't check the dates of annotated tags.

       -\-older
              Find dates which are older than the reference date rather than newer.

AUTHORS

        datalad is developed by The DataLad Team and Contributors <team@datalad.org>.

datalad check-dates 0.12.4                         2020-04-06                             datalad check-dates(1)