Set committer date so older years appear on GitHub - #66
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GitHub contribution graphs use committer date, not author date. `git commit --date` only sets the author date, so generated history from past years was attributed to today. Also document the behavior and a rewrite for existing repos.
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Summary
git commit --dateonly sets the author date, so generated history from past years was attributed to today.GIT_AUTHOR_DATEandGIT_COMMITTER_DATEwhen creating commits so older years (e.g. 2022-2025) show up on the profile.git filter-branchrewrite for people who already generated history.Test plan
npx fake-git-history --startDate "2022/01/01"(ornode src/cli.jslocally).my-historyrepo, confirm author and committer years match: