From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2016 07:17:02 GMT
Subject: Re: git rebase -i without altering the committer date
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1604210914420.2826@virtualbox>
In-Reply-To: <571863CE.6090002@kdbg.org>

Hi,

On Thu, 21 Apr 2016, Johannes Sixt wrote:

> Am 20.04.2016 um 23:47 schrieb Andreas Schwab:
> > Shaun Jackman <sjackman@gmail.com> writes:
> >
> > > I'd like to insert a commit between two commits without changing
> > > the committer date or author date of that commit or the subsequent
> > > commits.
> >
> > The easiest way to implement that is to add a graft to redirect the
> > parent of the second commit to the inserted commit, then use git
> > filter-branch to make the graft permanent.
> 
> This only inserts a new project state, but does not propagate the changes
> brought in by the new commit to the subsequent commits. This propagation of
> changes could also be done with filter-branch, but it may be difficult
> depending on circumstances.

I agree that rebase -i is the wrong wrench for this job. Either use
filter-branch or fast-export/edit/fast-import.

Or take a step back and ask yourself why you need to fool anybody about
the commit date... ;-D

Ciao,
Johannes