How to control the file dates in git?

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Can I preserve old dates after commit? No conflicts in git when changing dates?

PS: the aim in this example is to simulate document time and to reproduce the sequence of changes in the real world.

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 13 '17 at 22:51

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You can do this with the --date argument to git commit. For example:

git commit --date="Wed Feb 16 14:00 2037 +0100"

You can edit an existing date, too: use git commit --amend.

For more information, check out Working with dates in git.

answered Sep 13 '17 at 22:51

Christian Ternus

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Note that this is good for dates as far back as 1970, the start of the Unix epoch. Git can't record dates prior to that. – Robin James Kerrison Sep 13 '17 at 22:57

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