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Asked: 2026-06-14T03:31:20+00:00

I wonder how would you create a commit in the past? I’ve searched for

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I wonder how would you create a commit in the past?

I’ve searched for it, and as far as I understand one can use git commit --date""

I would really appreciate if someone could clarify this and give an example of the date format.

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    For example --date="Wed Feb 16 14:00 2011 +0100"

    From kernel.org:

    DATE FORMATS

    The GIT_AUTHOR_DATE, GIT_COMMITTER_DATE environment variables and the
    --date option support the following date formats:

    Git internal format It is , where
    is the number of seconds since the UNIX epoch.
    is a positive or negative offset from UTC. For
    example CET (which is 2 hours ahead UTC) is +0200.

    RFC 2822 The standard email format as described by RFC 2822, for
    example Thu, 07 Apr 2005 22:13:13 +0200.

    ISO 8601 Time and date specified by the ISO 8601 standard, for example
    2005-04-07T22:13:13. The parser accepts a space instead of the T
    character as well.

    source: http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-commit.html

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