Show commit date as well

[JM-Mendez]

Describe the feature that you'd like
A column that shows commit date rather than or adjacent to author date

Additional context (optional)

When running git log without filter options, eg "--since", git will show the author date. But when using said options or using git bisect it will use the commit date. Yet the commit date is not necessarily the same as the author date.

This discrepancy can manifest itself in various ways, but most commonly when rebasing branches. One situation in particular is running CI package updates and rebasing on develop to bring the current branch up to date.

I propose adding the %ct placeholder to assist when running commands like git bisect or filtering commits by date.

I'm willing to make a pull request if you'd like. Just point me on where to look.

[mhutchie]

Thanks for the feedback, this is a great suggestion!

It's a really quick change, I can do it.

I think it would be best to add a new setting which determines which date is shown in the table and commit details view. Then the user can choose their preference of author or commit date. What are your thoughts on this?

[JM-Mendez]

Wow, you're amazing! Thank you. Yeah I personally prefer to choose myself, rather than having an extra column taking up space.

[mhutchie]

This will be available in 1.4.4, which will be released within the next day.

[cateyes99]

@mhutchie Can you please make an option to show both author date and commit date at the same time? I have a commit:

* commit b3ddb2dc6ccdd338111205f2cee3bb204694ebbf (origin/Release_Branches/20-02-2020)
| Author:     Someone
| AuthorDate: Thu Feb 13 02:09:45 2020 +0000
| Commit:     Sometwo
| CommitDate: Wed Feb 19 13:27:17 2020 +1300
|
|     Merged PR 12850: increased callback limit from 1 to 3
|
|     Increased callback limit from 1 to 3
|
|     As agreed in meeting 31/1/2020
|
|     Related work items: #16897

In Git Graph, it shows either author date as date or commit date as date depending on the date type settings. Below is with the default setting - showing author date

[mhutchie]

@cateyes99 I'll add this in an upcoming release, now need to raise a feature request as it’s small and easy for me to do.

[cateyes99]

@cateyes99 I'll add this in an upcoming release, now need to raise a feature request as it’s small and easy for me to do.

Done. I've created #269.