Redate failed.

[lm2343635]

➜  MGSelector git:(master) git redate -c 4
fatal: ambiguous argument 'HEAD~4..HEAD': unknown revision or path not in the working tree.
Use '--' to separate paths from revisions, like this:
'git <command> [<revision>...] -- [<file>...]'
Git redate failed. Please make sure you run this on a clean working directory.

[us]

Ping!

[luciusmagn]

I had the same issue

[lwerdna]

same...

fatal: ambiguous argument 'HEAD~100..HEAD': unknown revision or path not in the working tree.
Use '--' to separate paths from revisions, like this:
'git <command> [<revision>...] -- [<file>...]'
Git redate failed. Please make sure you run this on a clean working directory.

[Hu1buerger]

Same.

git reset --hard didn't work either

[nvhoang55]

"Make sure to run this on a clean working directory otherwise it won't work."
Mean that no untracked and edited files (not committed files) in the directory, I suggest that you should create a new branch with a clean working tree then try again.

[Hu1buerger]

@nvhoang55 i tried that too.

After reset --hard all files are at the committed state

[JazzJackrabbit]

Managed to make this work by excluding the initial commit from the scope and running
git redate -c N-1
where N is the total number of commits in the repo.

[AmosSpark]

Managed to make this work by excluding the initial commit from the scope and running git redate -c N-1 where N is the total number of commits in the repo.

@JazzJackrabbit can you detail how you exclude the initial commit from the scope? And how will I go about this if I have upto say 40 commits?

[JazzJackrabbit]

＠AmosSpark
Basically just by running the redate command for the total amount of commits minus one.
So if you have 40 commits, that would be git redate -c 39.
That should change everything you need beside the very first commit.

Then, if you also need to change the date on the first commit, you can use this script from #6:

git filter-branch --env-filter \
"if test \$GIT_COMMIT = '448827e9ef01bb245ccd3939bfbddc2681c6d9c8'
then
    export GIT_AUTHOR_DATE='Sun May 7 02:23:03 2017 +0000'
    export GIT_COMMITTER_DATE='Sun May 7 02:23:03 2017 +0000'
fi" && rm -fr "$(git rev-parse --git-dir)/refs/original/"

Hope this helps.

[AmosSpark]

＠AmosSpark Basically just by running the redate command for the total amount of commits minus one. So if you have 40 commits, that would be git redate -c 39. That should change everything you need beside the very first commit.

Then, if you also need to change the date on the first commit, you can use this script from #6:

git filter-branch --env-filter \
"if test \$GIT_COMMIT = '448827e9ef01bb245ccd3939bfbddc2681c6d9c8'
then
    export GIT_AUTHOR_DATE='Sun May 7 02:23:03 2017 +0000'
    export GIT_COMMITTER_DATE='Sun May 7 02:23:03 2017 +0000'
fi" && rm -fr "$(git rev-parse --git-dir)/refs/original/"

Hope this helps.

Yea it does, thank you.