From 64288aa7e626109f0832ec9566110233313e91a8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Campagnaro <mikecampo@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2020 10:54:48 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Display author's date in custom git log alias

---
 gitconfig | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/gitconfig b/gitconfig
index ac76690..efce50a 100644
--- a/gitconfig
+++ b/gitconfig
@@ -35,7 +35,11 @@
   required = true
   process = git-lfs filter-process
 [alias]
-  lg = log --graph --pretty=format:'%Cred%h%Creset %C(yellow)%an [%cn]%d%Creset %s %Cgreen(%cr)%Creset' --date=relative
+  # Note: I'm using %ad in the pretty log to see the author's timestamp, as
+  # opposed to %cr which is the commiter's timestamp. I prefer the former
+  # because I sometimes edit an earlier commit message while rebasing and I
+  # want to continue to see the original date.
+  lg = log --graph --pretty=format:'%Cred%h%Creset %C(yellow)%an [%cn]%d%Creset %s %Cgreen(%ad)%Creset' --date=relative
   start = !git init && git commit --allow-empty -m \"Initial commit\"
 [rerere]
   enabled = true