On 2023-10-27 08:45, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:

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.

I'm not talking about amends, plain or otherwise.  I'm talking about 
fixup/squash.

(Why do you focus so much an making rebase and commit behave 
identically?  There is no reason to do so just because they happen to 
share a couple of parameter names.)

quoted

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).

Yes, I know how to force my desired author date on commits, thanks.

		M.