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I am working on a github hosted project. For testing reasons, I have to move my computer date to somewhere in the future (2012) and forgot to bring it back to normal time when doing a git commit / push.
The actual commit is now actually saved as 2012 instead of 2010 and it’s screwing our github view since they always appear on top.
Is there any way to fix that?
If not too many people have already pulled from that GitHub repo, you could locally change the
GIT_AUTHOR_DATEandGIT_COMMITTER_DATEof your old commit, andgit push --forcethat to the GitHub repo.(Just be prepared to point out people to the RECOVERING FROM UPSTREAM REBASE section of the
git rebaseman page)See How can one change the timestamp of an old commit in Git? for the specifics on the
git filter-branchcommand required for that kind of operation.