Arturo and I were going through our commit
logs for ooni-probe this
morning when he noted that git commits leak geodata through timezone
settings. I figured git would have an easy way to set the timezone to GMT, but
it turns out that it uses mktime() to get a struct representing the system
clock time. There’s a few hacks already
for dealing with this, namely setting GIT_AUTHOR_DATE with the —date command:
$ git commit --date="Wed Feb 16 14:00 2037 +0100"
This is not only annoying, but it also doesn’t set GIT_COMMITTER_DATE,
so if you wrote the patch and also committed it to a repo, your timezone
still leaks.
I thought this was all incredibly annoying, and I don’t want to change
my system clock, so I made a bash script to fix it:
#!/bin/bash
#_____________________________________________________________________________
# Git Nowhere
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
#
# Use: Run as "$ . ./gitdate.sh" before "$ git commit" to manually set
# the date to GMT in order to obscure timezone-based geodata tracking.
#
# If you would always like your timestamps to be obscured for a specific
# project, then place this script in /usr/local/bin/. Next, edit
# /your_project_path/.git/hooks/pre-commit and place in it the following two
# lines:
#
# #!/bin/sh
# exec source /usr/local/bin/gitdate.sh
#
# @author Isis Lovecuft, 0x2CDB8B35 isis@patternsinthevoid.net
# @version 0.0.3
#
# v0.0.3: Also changes the months and years, because that would suck if your
# commits were accidentally made last year
# v0.0.2: Changes the days too# v0.0.1: Changes the hours
#_____________________________________________________________________________
DAY=$(date | cut -d ' ' -f 1)
MONTH=$(date | cut -d ' ' -f 2)
DATE=$(date | cut -d ' ' -f 4)
TIME=$(date | cut -d ' ' -f 5)
TIMEZONE="+0000"YEAR=$(date | cut -d ' ' -f 7)
HOUR=$(echo "$TIME" | cut -d ':' -f 1)
MINUTE=$(echo "$TIME" | cut -d ':' -f 2)
SECOND=$(echo "$TIME" | cut -d ':' -f 3)
# Git uses the system time settings through mktime(). Do a "$ git log" to see
# the timezone offset for your system. This script assumes -0700. For
# example, if "$ git log" says your timezone is -0500, you would change all
# occurences in the next code block of "7" to "5" and change "17" to "19".
TIMEOFFSET=7
if [ "$HOUR" -lt "17" ]; then
let HOUR+=7else
let TILMIDNIGHT=24-HOUR
let FALSEDAWN=TIMEOFFSET-TILMIDNIGHT
let HOUR=FALSEDAWN
fi
# If the hour is one digit, prepend a zero.
if [ "${#HOUR}" -eq "1" ]; then
HOUR=$(printf "%02d" $HOUR)
fi
# If it is tomorrow in UTC, make sure we increment the day.
if [[ -n "$FALSEDAWN" ]]; then
if [ "$DAY" = "Mon" ]; then
NEXTDAY=$(echo "Tue")
elif [ "$DAY" = "Tue" ]; then
NEXTDAY=$(echo "Wed")
elif [ "$DAY" = "Wed" ]; then
NEXTDAY=$(echo "Thu")
elif [ "$DAY" = "Thu" ]; then
NEXTDAY=$(echo "Fri")
elif [ "$DAY" = "Fri" ]; then
NEXTDAY=$(echo "Sat")
elif [ "$DAY" = "Sat" ]; then
NEXTDAY=$(echo "Sun")
elif [ "$DAY" = "Sun" ]; then
NEXTDAY=$(echo "Mon")
fi
DAY=$NEXTDAY
if [[ "$MONTH" = "Jan" ]] || [[ "$MONTH" = "Mar" ]] || [[ "$MONTH" = "May" ]] || [[ "$MONTH" = "Jul" ]] || [[ "$MONTH" = "Aug" ]] || [[ "$MONTH" = "Oct" ]] || [[ "$MONTH" = "Dec" ]]; then
if [[ "$DATE" -lt "31" ]]; then
let DATE+=1
elif [[ "$DATE" -eq "31" ]]; then
if [[ "$MONTH" = "Jan" ]]; then
NEXTMONTH=$(echo "Feb")
elif [[ "$MONTH" = "Mar" ]]; then
NEXTMONTH=$(echo "Apr")
elif [[ "$MONTH" = "May" ]]; then
NEXTMONTH=$(echo "Jun")
elif [[ "$MONTH" = "Jul" ]]; then
NEXTMONTH=$(echo "Aug")
elif [[ "$MONTH" = "Aug" ]]; then
NEXTMONTH=$(echo "Sep")
elif [[ "$MONTH" = "Oct" ]]; then
NEXTMONTH=$(echo "Nov")
elif [[ "$MONTH" = "Dec" ]]; then
NEXTMONTH=$(echo "Jan")
let YEAR+=1
fi
DATE=1
fi
elif [[ "$MONTH" = "Feb" ]] && [[ "$DATE" -lt "28" ]]; then
let DATE+=1
elif [[ "$MONTH" = "Feb" ]] && [[ "$DATE" -eq "28" ]]; then
NEXTMONTH=$(echo "Mar")
DATE=1
elif [[ "$MONTH" = "Apr" ]] || [[ "$MONTH" = "Jun" ]] || [[ "$MONTH" = "Sep" ]] || [[ "$MONTH" = "Nov" ]]; then
if [[ "$DATE" -lt "30" ]]; then
let DATE+=1
elif [[ "$DATE" -eq "30" ]]; then
if [[ "$MONTH" = "Apr" ]]; then
NEXTMONTH=$(echo "May")
elif [[ "$MONTH" = "Jun" ]]; then
NEXTMONTH=$(echo "Jul")
elif [[ "$MONTH" = "Sep" ]]; then
NEXTMONTH=$(echo "Oct")
elif [[ "$MONTH" = "Nov" ]]; then
NEXTMONTH=$(echo "Dec")
fi
DATE=1
fi
fi
if [[ -n "$NEXTMONTH" ]]; then
MONTH=$NEXTMONTH
fi
fi
export GIT_AUTHOR_DATE=$(echo "$DAY $MONTH $DATE $HOUR:$MINUTE:$SECOND $YEAR $TIMEZONE")
export GIT_COMMITTER_DATE=$GIT_AUTHOR_DATE
unset NEXTMONTH
unset DAY
unset MONTH
unset DATE
unset HOUR
unset MINUTE
unset SECOND
unset YEAR
unset TIMEZONE
unset TILMIDNIGHT
unset FALSEDAWN
unset NEXTDAY
unset TIMEOFFSET
