Git Committer Date is Author Date (Amend)

Amend the last commit (HEAD) and set the committer date as the author date – as “–committer-date-is-author-date” may have done (a git-rebase option):

GIT_COMMITTER_DATE="$(git show -s --format=%at HEAD)" git commit \
  --amend -C HEAD

(Explainshell)

Git Author Date is Committer Date (Amend)

And for setting the author date to the committer date while keeping the committer date:

GIT_COMMITTER_DATE="$(git show -s --format=%ct HEAD)" git commit \
  --amend -C HEAD --date="$(git show -s --format=%ct HEAD)"

(Explainshell)

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Previously:

• Git – Set the Author Date to The Committer Date of a Recent Commit (Apr 2019)

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