git-redate

Made by Potato Labs

Change the dates of several git commits with a single command.

Installation

For homebrew users, you need to run brew tap PotatoLabs/homebrew-git-redate and then brew install git-redate.

If you're not using homebrew, you can clone this repo and move the git-redate file into any folders in your $PATH. Restart your terminal afterwards and you're good to go!

For window's users, you may paste the file into ${INSTALLATION_PATH}\mingw64\libexec\git-core. Assuming you used the default settings the installation path will be C:\Program Files\Git.

Usage

Simply run: git redate --commits [[number of commits to view]]. You'll have to force push in order for your commit history to be rewritten.

To be able to edit all the commits at once add the --all option: git redate --all. This option can be negated with --no-all.

You can also specify a range of commits¹ as a positional parameter, instead of --count or --all: git redate HEAD~10..HEAD~6

Make sure to run this on a clean working directory otherwise it won't work.

The --commits (a.k.a. -c) argument is optional, and defaults to 5 if not provided.

Note See git redate -h for further usage information.

Configuration

You may set default values for various git redate options in your Git client configuration.²

The available options are:

• redate.all: takes a boolean value (true, false, yes, no, etc.²). When enabled, git redate defaults to editing all commits.
• redate.commits: takes a positive integer. Used as the default number of commits to edit.
• redate.debug: takes a boolean value. When enabled, git redate defaults to issuing extra diagnostic information to standard error.
• redate.limit: takes a positive integer. Used as the default number of commits to modify in a single git filter-branch operation.
• redate.original: takes a namespace. Used as the namespace where the re-dated commits will be stored.³
• redate.gpgsign: takes a boolean value. When enabled, git redate defaults to signing re-dated commits.

Example configuration:

[redate]
all = no
commits = 10
debug = true
limit = 35
original = refs/redate
gpgsign = yes

Footnotes

1. See git help gitrevisions for various ways to spell commit ranges. ↩

2. See git help config for more info on configuring your Git client. ↩ ↩²

3. See git help filter-branch for more info on git filter-branch options. ↩