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Subject: Re: git rebase -i without altering the committer date
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2016 13:36:59 -0700
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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. I'd planned on using `git rebase -i` to insert the
> commit. I believe it retains the author date, but changes the
> committer date to the current time. I've seen the options
> `--committer-date-is-author-date` and `--ignore-date`, but I don't
> believe either of those options does what I want. If no such
> option currently exists to leave the committer and author date
> unchanged, is there any chance that this functionality could
> please be implemented?

You can mark the commit as "edit", use "git commit --amend" when
"rebase -i" stops and gives control back to you, and say "rebase
--continue".  That way, you can use your favourite trick to lie
about committer date (or identity or other aspects) when running
"git commit --amend" and its effect will be left in the resulting
history, I would think.