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Various reasons. Git rebasing and merging skew with the dates, and one wants to make the timestamp of the recent commits to "look" more reasonable.
Anyhow, what I'm really looking for is a shortcut for modify git timestamps without doing the manual work of setting GIT_AUTHOR_DATE and GIT_COMMITER_DATE with stackoverflow.com/a/3896112 .
What is the use case for needing to change the date?
Various reasons. Git rebasing and merging skew with the dates, and one wants to make the timestamp of the recent commits to "look" more reasonable.
Anyhow, what I'm really looking for is a shortcut for modify git timestamps without doing the manual work of setting GIT_AUTHOR_DATE and GIT_COMMITER_DATE with stackoverflow.com/a/3896112 .
Any insights @gonedark ?
@jonlai have you ever found a trick to get that alias to work?
My solution under zsh is
used as
example