From: Marc Branchaud Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2023 13:46:06 GMT Subject: Re: using oldest date when squashing commits Message-ID: <3aff8ce6-1cb0-465e-9b7a-db6473713786@xiplink.com> In-Reply-To: On 2023-10-27 09:26, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > On Fri, Oct 27, 2023 at 09:20:04AM -0400, Marc Branchaud wrote: >> >> On 2023-10-27 08:45, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: >>> On Fri, Oct 27, 2023 at 08:34:40AM -0400, Marc Branchaud wrote: >>>> I never use "fixup -C" (or -c), but I do use squash/fixup a lot.  I >>>> find that I would prefer it if Git used the most recent Author date >>>> from the set of commits being combined, rather than preserving the >>>> picked commit's Author date. >>>> >>> that would be unreliable, as plain amends wouldn't be reflected. that >>> may be rare in your workflow, but still. >> >> I'm not talking about amends, plain or otherwise. >> > but why wouldn't you? your use case of marking the date of completion > naturally covers all ways of amending commits, whether directly or via > squashing. Please do not presume what my use cases might be. I'm quite happy with commit's behaviour, but not happy with rebase's fixup/squash behaviour because it's too much work to achieve the desired results. (Results which, as I said, I don't care about enough to bother changing anyway). M.