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I am aware of Git picking up the GIT_COMMITTER_DATE environment variable, but for every amending commit, I have to manually prepend GIT_COMMITTER_DATE="$(git log -1 --pretty=tformat:%cD HEAD)" to the command line. Is there a config option to make this behavior the default? Or can a wrapper script modify the behavior for git-commit? (I am not interested in creating a custom subcommand for Git, like git amend.)

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    I'm curious what the use case is for this. In my experience having a different committer date rarely ever matters, but every once in a while the extra information contained in the new committer date is helpful. I've never once wished the extra information wasn't there though... – TTT Jul 31 '23 at 19:15
  • @TTT Just personal aesthetic preference. – iBug Jul 31 '23 at 19:26
  • Note if you can change the behavior of `git-commit`, unless you are inspecting the command line options to isolate "amend", then the committer date will also be faked for `cherry-pick` and `rebase`, and not just `amend`. Not sure if you want that or not? – TTT Jul 31 '23 at 19:46
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    @TTT I need it to work for the `commit --amend` command-and-argument combination. Other commands may be affected or not - I don't care. – iBug Jul 31 '23 at 19:48

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