Post #2704236
2026-02-27 20:27 UTC
@nerdnz@cloudisland.nz
Meant commit IDs. I've seen attempts at removing committer information from projects end up re-IDing everything. Thus my curiosity.
I've been lucky enough that I've generally been able to not use name-based emails for public projects.
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@nerdnz@cloudisland.nz 2026-02-27 20:44
@ferricoxide@blahaj.zone Yeah rewriting history in _any_ way means the old commits are gone and replaced with fresh new ones. Commit metadata like author name is used for generating commit hashes so there's no way to modify it without reconstructing a brand new commit. But it is possible to do that in a way that preserves the commit date part of the metadata