From: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2025 20:41:23 GMT
Subject: Re: How dangerous is --committer-date-is-author-date these days?
Message-ID: <aObMc2GV8fAE9IX2@szeder.dev>
In-Reply-To: <93041214-4774-49eb-b8bd-24648134cded@app.fastmail.com>

On Mon, Sep 30, 2024 at 04:49:32PM +0200, Kristoffer Haugsbakk wrote:
> As a Git user, I don’t understand why some people want to fiddle with
> this field in rewrite operations.  It’s very hidden (apparently you have
> to use something like `git log --format=fuller` to reveal it).

FWIW, GitHub and similar sites display only the committer date.

> I can’t speak for power users.  But regular users?  Well I see questions
> about being very deliberate about setting this field on rewrite
> operations on StackOverflow (at least one time).  But I can only guess
> *why* they are particular about it (this part is often not explained).

Perhaps they prefer to see the author date even on GitHub, and try to
work around its shortcomings.