From: Marc Branchaud Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2023 13:20:04 GMT Subject: Re: using oldest date when squashing commits Message-ID: <6d100655-ffd4-4282-87b5-cfdd101dba63@xiplink.com> In-Reply-To: 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. I'm talking about fixup/squash. (Why do you focus so much an making rebase and commit behave identically? There is no reason to do so just because they happen to share a couple of parameter names.) >> Sometimes it takes quite a while for me to get a piece of work sorted >> out, and I would rather have the Author date in the end-result commit >> reflect the work's completion time than its initiation time. >> > afaict, you need to get used to `--amend --reset-author` all commits > before you push to achieve this reliably. that can be easily automated > by using -x with rebase -i (filter-repo (ex filter-branch) would also > work). Yes, I know how to force my desired author date on commits, thanks. M.