One of the greatest and worst things with git is that you can rewrite the history. Here’s a sneaky way of abusing that, I can’t think of a legitimate reason to do this.
As with anything, thanks StackOverflow for all the options I can pick from 👍.
Set the date of the last commit to the current date
GIT_COMMITTER_DATE="$(date)" git commit --amend --no-edit --date "$(date)"
Set the date of the last commit to an arbitrary date
GIT_COMMITTER_DATE="Mon 20 Aug 2018 20:19:19 BST" git commit --amend --no-edit --date "Mon 20 Aug 2018 20:19:19 BST"
Set the date of an arbitrary commit to an arbitrary or current date
Rebase to before said commit and stop for amendment:
git rebase <commit-hash>^ -i- Replace
pickwithe(edit) on the line with that commit (the first one) - quit the editor (ESC followed by
:wqin VIM) - Either:
GIT_COMMITTER_DATE="$(date)" git commit --amend --no-edit --date "$(date)"GIT_COMMITTER_DATE="Mon 20 Aug 2018 20:19:19 BST" git commit --amend --no-edit --date "Mon 20 Aug 2018 20:19:19 BST"
See here for more information around rebasing and editing in git: Split an existing git commit.
Top comments (1)
Thanks, it worked.
As for a use case, I just had 4 commits that I rebased and squashed together. The resulting final commit had the date of the first of the 4 commits, which was a week ago.
And I wanted to push the final commit with today's date, which is a legitimate reason to me ;)