Change the Time of Git Commits
Mike GriffinI’ve been working off a virtual machine for some dev work recently and when I resumed the VM after it had been asleep for a while, the time was off. I hadn’t set up ntp to set the time and didn’t notice it was a few days behind until after I pushed some commits up to github.
The timestamps were all way off and I didn’t like it, not one little bit.
After some finagling around on the interwebs, I found a solution: interactive git rebase
Here’s the steps I followed to fix the times on the commits. I wanted to change the time on the
last two commits so I used HEAD~2
git rebase -i HEAD~2
Change the first word from pick
to edit
on both lines and exit
git commit --amend --date="Tue May 28 15:39:08 2013 +0100"
git rebase --continue
Do the same for the other commit.
When you’re happy, you can force a push to github (but make sure no one else has pulled from it in the meantime)
git push -f origin master
And, hey presto, that’s how you modify the commit time through git. Now, go off and fix ntp, you fool!