How to push a file to past time?

Question

Yesterday, I made changes on a project file but forgot to commit and push it on github. I don\'t want that my contribution streak breaks after 51 days..so I would like to pu

Answer 1

Yesterday, I made changes on a project file but forgot to commit and push it on github

As far as I know, GitHub contribution graphs rely on commit datetimes, not push datetimes. FWIW, there are even tools abusing this to use the contribution graph as a drawing board (cf. this google search).

So the easy way would be to

• Commit locally now

• Then rewrite your latest commit to change the authorship date (pick the time and timezone you'd like) with something like git commit --amend --date="Wed Jul 12 14:17 2014 +0900"

• Push