Re: git rebase -i without altering the committer date

Hi,

On Thu, 21 Apr 2016, Johannes Sixt wrote:

Am 20.04.2016 um 23:47 schrieb Andreas Schwab:

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Shaun Jackman [off-list ref] writes:

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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