How can one change the timestamp of an old commit in Git?

The answers to How to modify existing, unpushed commits? describe a way to amend previous commit messages that haven’t yet been pushed upstream. The new messages inherit the timestamps of the original commits. This seems logical, but is there a way to also re-set the times? 27 s 27 You can do an interactive rebase … Read more

How to change the author and committer name and e-mail of multiple commits in Git?

I was writing a simple script on the school computer, and committing the changes to Git (in a repo that was in my pen drive, cloned from my computer at home). After several commits, I realized I was committing stuff as the root user. Is there any way to change the author of these commits … Read more

How to modify existing, unpushed commit messages?

This question’s answers are a community effort. Edit existing answers to improve this post. It is not currently accepting new answers or interactions. I wrote the wrong thing in a commit message. How can I change the message? The commit has not been pushed yet. 2 27 Amending the most recent commit message git commit … Read more