How to Change the Date of an Old Git Commit

Short summary

A tutorial on changing Git commit dates using git commit --amend for the latest commit and interactive rebase for older commits. Changing any timestamp creates a new commit hash since Git hashes the entire commit object. The author promotes their tool GitEditDate for bulk date editing to avoid tedious rebase workflows.

• •Use git commit --amend with GIT_COMMITTER_DATE for the most recent commit
• •Use interactive rebase (git rebase -i) to edit older commit dates, which rewrites history and changes hashes
• •Author promotes GitEditDate tool for bulk commit date editing without manual rebase steps

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