Re: using oldest date when squashing commits

From: Oswald Buddenhagen <oswald.buddenhagen@gmx.de>
Date: Oct 27, 2023, 12:45 UTC
Message-ID: <ZTuw7ziOnTunMmML@ugly>
In-Reply-To: <70b8d4d8-f4b5-4cd7-b73a-1d7393d84266@xiplink.com>

On Fri, Oct 27, 2023 at 08:34:40AM -0400, Marc Branchaud wrote:

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>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.

>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).

regards