From 3bd3f0c80796445131cdd913031b481189808ebf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nic Dahlquist <nic@snapchat.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2014 18:45:48 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Change InputGitAuthor to reflect that time is an optional
 parameter.

---
 .gitignore               |  1 +
 github/InputGitAuthor.py | 13 +++++++++----
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 41bec3ec..b0fb8a8b 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@
 /MANIFEST
 /PyGithub.egg-info/
 /.coverage
+/.idea
 /developer.github.com/
 /gh-pages/
 /doc/doctrees/
diff --git a/github/InputGitAuthor.py b/github/InputGitAuthor.py
index 82a7c3bb..4567f417 100644
--- a/github/InputGitAuthor.py
+++ b/github/InputGitAuthor.py
@@ -23,12 +23,14 @@
 #                                                                              #
 # ##############################################################################
 
+import github.GithubObject
+
 
 class InputGitAuthor(object):
     """
     """
 
-    def __init__(self, name, email, date):
+    def __init__(self, name, email, date=github.GithubObject.NotSet):
         """
         :param name: string
         :param email: string
@@ -37,15 +39,18 @@ class InputGitAuthor(object):
 
         assert isinstance(name, (str, unicode)), name
         assert isinstance(email, (str, unicode)), email
-        assert isinstance(date, (str, unicode)), date  # @todo Datetime?
+        assert date is github.GithubObject.NotSet or isinstance(date, (str, unicode)), date  # @todo Datetime?
+
         self.__name = name
         self.__email = email
         self.__date = date
 
     @property
     def _identity(self):
-        return {
+        identity = {
             "name": self.__name,
             "email": self.__email,
-            "date": self.__date,
         }
+        if self.__date is not github.GithubObject.NotSet:
+            identity["date"] = self.__date
+        return identity