{"id":1193,"date":"2022-11-07T18:20:05","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T18:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/editjournal.redakt.eu\/faxmodem\/?p=1193"},"modified":"2022-11-07T18:21:07","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T18:21:07","slug":"reword-a-commit-message-without-changing-the-commit-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/editjournal.redakt.eu\/faxmodem\/blog\/development\/reword-a-commit-message-without-changing-the-commit-date\/","title":{"rendered":"Reword a commit message without changing the commit date"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you want to rebase-edit the commit message in an old commit, and keep the original commit date, you can do that using the --committer-date-is-author-date<\/code> flag. Here's how:<\/p>\n

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  1. Find your old commit that you want to edit and copy its hash<\/li>\n
  2. Run git rebase -i hash^<\/code><\/li>\n
  3. Find your commit in the list that shows up and type edit<\/code> in front of it<\/li>\n
  4. Run git commit --amend<\/code> to enter editing mode for that commit, make your changes<\/li>\n
  5. Type git rebase --continue<\/code> to put the commit back into the history. At this point you will have all of the dates from your commit going forward rewritten to now<\/li>\n
  6. This<\/strong>. Run git rebase --committer-date-is-author-date olderhash<\/code>, where olderhash<\/em> is the hash of the commit just before the edited one which acts as a reference. All commits from the olderhash<\/em>, starting with the just edited one, will have the dates restored to the corresponding authoring dates.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The good news is this allows restoring the dates even after the rebase had been completed and all the dates seem to have been lost or overwritten.<\/p>\n

    Sources:<\/p>\n