Commits don’t have to be in date order. The date (technically dates, plural) is an attribute of the commit. Try it yourself by committing and then rebasing the

Commits don’t have to be in date order. The date (technically dates, plural) is an attribute of the commit. Try it yourself by committing and then rebasing the commits into a different order. Or directly edit the metadata by specifying explicit values for the commit and author time stamps.