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From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
To: Oswald Buddenhagen <oswald.buddenhagen@gmx.de>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: using oldest date when squashing commits
Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2022 09:05:45 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9fae5292-d58f-95da-245b-6e205383cb50@kdbg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YjXRM5HiRizZ035p@ugly>

Am 19.03.22 um 13:48 schrieb Oswald Buddenhagen:
> during interactive rebasing, i sometimes find it necessary to move a
> hunk from one commit to a later one in the branch. now, if that hunk
> cannot be re-ordered with the later commit due to conflicting with it,
> it becomes necessary to squash the later commit onto a temporary commit
> created from the extracted hunk, not the other way around (or using a
> stash). unfortunately, this causes the author date of the later commit
> to be reset, which can rather seriously falsify the date if the branch
> is long-lived.

You want `fixup -C` in the todo-list. See the hints near the end of the
todo-list.

-- Hannes

  reply	other threads:[~2022-03-20  8:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-03-19 12:48 using oldest date when squashing commits Oswald Buddenhagen
2022-03-20  8:05 ` Johannes Sixt [this message]
2022-03-20 10:53   ` Oswald Buddenhagen
2023-10-24  9:26   ` Phillip Wood
2023-10-24 10:18     ` Oswald Buddenhagen
2023-10-24 14:00       ` Phillip Wood
2023-10-24 17:30         ` Junio C Hamano
2023-10-24 20:13           ` Oswald Buddenhagen
2023-10-24 21:19           ` Johannes Sixt
2023-10-27 12:34             ` Marc Branchaud
2023-10-27 12:45               ` Oswald Buddenhagen
2023-10-27 13:20                 ` Marc Branchaud
2023-10-27 13:26                   ` Oswald Buddenhagen
2023-10-27 13:46                     ` Marc Branchaud
2023-10-27 23:24               ` Junio C Hamano

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