Re: using oldest date when squashing commits

From: Oswald Buddenhagen <oswald.buddenhagen@gmx.de>
Date: Oct 27, 2023, 13:26 UTC
Message-ID: <ZTu6cqUec3L2PpUC@ugly>
In-Reply-To: <6d100655-ffd4-4282-87b5-cfdd101dba63@xiplink.com>

On Fri, Oct 27, 2023 at 09:20:04AM -0400, Marc Branchaud wrote:

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>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.

regards