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  1. Sourcetree For Mac
  2. SRCTREE-779

Show AuthorDate rather than CommitDate

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      git log shows the AuthorDate rather than the CommitDate, so SourceTree should probably do the same.

      The AuthorDate differs from the CommitDate when a commit is cherry-picked or a branch is rebased. For example, git log --format=fuller shows the following for a commit that I cherry-picked the following day:

      Author:     Chris Bandy <cbandy@sittercity.com>
AuthorDate: Wed Nov 30 14:19:19 2011 -0600
Commit:     Chris Bandy <cbandy@sittercity.com>
CommitDate: Thu Dec 1 20:52:35 2011 -0600

      Also, I think the CommitDate matches the ancestry of a branch, making it largely uninformative in the Log View and file log.

      When the CommitDate differs from the AuthorDate, it may be good to display both in the commit details/summary.

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