Defect #11710
openGit: Repository view author/date inconsistency
Description
In the git repository view, the "Author" field displayed for each commit is the git author (correct), but the "Date" or "Age" column displays the committer date (wrong & inconsistent with the author field). Committer and author are different when commits get rewritten, e.g. during a rebase or a cherry pick. So if Alice commits a patch in a bugfix branch 3 years ago, and then Bob cherry-picks that patch into the master branch 2 days ago, then, in Git terminology, Alice is the "author" and Bob is the "committer" of that master commit. However, Redmine displays the commit as "Added by Alice 2 days ago", which is wrong. Redmine should display the author name and date everywhere. At least that's what all git repository viewers I know (e.g. gitk) do.
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