Changing the date on a Git commitEdit

Fixing the date on an existing commit

Let's look at the case where we only want to change the HEAD commit; changing previous commits is harder (using either git rebase -i or git filter-branch) and may be limited by your ability and/or willingness to rewrite published history.

$ D=$(ts -6d) # Move the date back six days.
$ GIT_COMMITTER_DATE="$D" git amend --date="$D" --no-edit

Notes

• amend here is just an alias for git commit --amend.
• ts is a script from my dot-files repo.