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Reputation: 403

Edit commits date in Git

I have my own repository. What I want to do is to change the history. I want to change the date of every single commit. Is it possible, if yes - how? I searched on google, but I didn't really find an answer.

P.s: My repository is in BitBucket and I'm using git core.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 120

Answers (1)

VonC
VonC

Reputation: 1322975

Note that you have two dates to set:

  • GIT_AUTHOR_DATE
  • GIT_COMMITTER_DATE

They both follow the same date format

As in this blog post, resetting the dates on one specific SHA1 would be (using git filter-branch):

git filter-branch --env-filter \
"if test \$GIT_COMMIT = 'e6dbcffca68e4b51887ef660e2389052193ba4f4'
then
  export GIT_AUTHOR_DATE='Sat, 14 Dec 2013 12:40:00 +0000'
  export GIT_COMMITTER_DATE='Sat, 14 Dec 2013 12:40:00 +0000'
fi" && rm -fr "$(git rev-parse --git-dir)/refs/original/"

Resetting commit fate to author date would be:

git filter-branch --env-filter 'export GIT_COMMITTER_DATE="$GIT_AUTHOR_DATE"'

You will have to do a git push --force after changing the history, which can be problematic if others have cloned your upstream repo.

Upvotes: 1

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