Junio C Hamano:
as merely a different way to do the following:
$ git commit -m A
$ edit
$ edit further ;# working tree has an equivalent of C
$ git commit --amend -a
Indeed. My last command in the chain is usually
git commit --amend --date=now
to set the commit date to now. In my use-case it is often a
work-in-progress commit that I start out with, which I refine over a
couple of hours/days/weeks to get working properly (depending on the
complexity of the change), and when I am finally done, the proper
dating of the change is "now", not "when I first started doing it".
I am still not convinced it is a good idea, but I can see how
another verb that behaves like existing "fixup" or "squash" but use
the authorship not from the updated but from the updating commit
might seem useful.
I'd be happy with a parameter and/or configuration variable saying
"amend and rebase uses last commit date".
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