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Michael Herman 4e54276ad4 updated folder structure
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I always forget how to back date, so here we go ...

This is dangerous and should be signed off by the omniscience, omnipotence Git him/herself. Rewriting history is evil, in other words.

$ git add <file_name>
$ export GIT_COMMITER_DATE="Sun Jun 15 14:00 2014 +0100"
$ export GIT_AUTHOR_DATE="Sun Jun 15 14:00 2014 +0100"
$ git commit -m "so bad"
$ git push

GIT_COMMITER_DATE and GIT_AUTHOR_DATE are environment variables