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Ever wanted to commit something to a git repo with a past date? Here’s how you could do it.
If you are working on a project and missed a commit yesterday or you accomplished the task but GitHub for Windows bailed on you? Well, this little hack can solve your problem.
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Pre-Step.
Pull all data from remote to the local repository.
For the same, we are using the --amend and --date switches.
The exact command is as follows:
$ git commit --amend --date="YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS"
Simple isn't it!
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Top comments (4)
I generally use
--amendto modify the recent commit message--amend is super powerful I've used it a number of times to change my name/email.
Fix git commit author
Waylon Walker ・ Oct 19 '20 ・ 4 min read
So you can kinda cheat on github 👀
Awesome. Just what I needed today.