Git

work in progress

by FND

Altering Commit Dates

$ (export GIT_COMMITTER_DATE="1970-01-01 00:00:00"; \
        git commit --amend --date="$GIT_COMMITTER_DATE")

(The parentheses spawn a subshell, which is required for the environment variable to take effect.)

$ git log --format="%h [%cd] %ad %s"

This reveals both commit and authoring dates.

Worktree

Reifies a branch in a separate directory, without a separate repository clone:

$ git worktree add "$directory" "$branch"
$ git worktree remove "$directory"

Orphan Branches

$ git symbolic-ref HEAD refs/heads/my-branch

GitHub Pull Requests

Checking out locally:

$ git fetch origin pull/<ID>/head:<branch>