git-redate

Made by Potato Labs and eXtronis

Interactively change the dates of several git commits in current branch with a single command. Improved and updated fork.

Installation

For Homebrew users (on macOS): you need to run brew tap PotatoLabs/homebrew-git-redate and then brew install git-redate. See Homebrew formula here: https://github.com/PotatoLabs/homebrew-git-redate

When using Linux/BSD/Unix or macOS without Homebrew: you can clone this repo or download the git-redate file and copy it into any folders in your $PATH. Restart your terminal afterwards and you're good to go!

For Windows users: you copy the git-redate file into ${INSTALLATION_PATH}\mingw64\libexec\git-core\. If you used the default Git installation settings, INSTALLATION_PATH should be C:\Program Files\Git.

See also this Stackoverflow answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/40095055/265954.

Usage

Make sure to run this on a clean working directory otherwise you'll lose your uncommitted changes, or it won't work.

• Redate a number of commits: git redate [--commits|-c <number of commits>]. If the redated commits have been previously pushed to a Git server, you'll have to force push in order for your commit history to be rewritten on the Git server. The --commits (short -c) argument is optional, and defaults to 5 if not provided.
  Examples:
  git redate : last 5 commits (default) of current branch
  git redate -c 7: last 7 commits of current branch
  git redate --commits 25 : last 25 commits of current branch
• Redate all commits of current branch at once: git redate --all|-a.
  Examples:
  git redate -a : all commits of current branch
  git redate --all : all commits of current branch
• Specify block size ("chunks") of commits to process: --limit | -l <block size>.
• Enable debug output: --debug | -d.