On Tue, Dec 24, 2024 at 12:29:28AM +0000, Gavin Smith wrote: > On Tue, Dec 24, 2024 at 12:18:05AM +0000, Gavin Smith wrote: > > Is there any way to keep the commit dates and dates of ChangeLog entries > > in order for the new commits? In the past it has been quite confusing > > trying to make sense of commits when the dates are out of order and > > trying to understand when commits were actually made. > > Too late - the commit dated 2024-12-23 (a660b5812) is then followed by > a commit dated 2024-12-04 (91e12ddfa23).
Actually, I would not know how to do that. Changing the ChangeLog is one thing, changing the commit date, I don't know how to do that. I use git cherry-pick to get the commit, and there does not seems to be the possibility to do that. > Sometimes when I know when a commit was made I like to scroll down in > "gitk" to see commits around this date to get the context of the change, > but this is not possible in these sections of the history. I am not a specialist of git, but I think that it is consistent with the idea of branches and non-linear development that is at the core of git, I would say. -- Pat
