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indojin
indojin

Reputation: 149

How to edit the commit date when using git commit --reedit-message?

I recently used git commit --reedit-message=HEAD, to make a new commit while using most of the text from the HEAD. All went well till I observed that after committing, the new commit showed the same date stamp as the previous HEAD.

The log (pretty) looked like this

hash   , auth date , message
86fb360, 2019-11-16, copied commit (committed on 2019-11-21)
6dc9583, 2019-11-16, original commit (committed on 2019-11-16)

The basic log command git log -1also showed the old date.

Why did this happen?

How to make the actual commit date appear on the new commit when using the above command?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 438

Answers (2)

phd
phd

Reputation: 94483

git commit -c @ --reset-author

--reset-author renews the author information including timestamp.

Upvotes: 1

Romain Valeri
Romain Valeri

Reputation: 21938

That's to be expected.

From -C <commit> section in the doc :

Take an existing commit object, and reuse the log message and the authorship information (including the timestamp) when creating the commit.

(emphasis mine)

then the -c / --reedit-message references it with "Like -C, but ..."

Depending on your exact needs, what you could probably do is to --amend that last commit and set whatever date/author or other metadata you want. If you don't alter anything though, note that the committer date will still be the moment you do the amending, not the original date, which hopefully is what you tried to obtain?

Upvotes: 1

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