Add option to show commit AuthorDate instead of CommitDate

[jxu]

Basically https://stackoverflow.com/questions/71461868/how-to-view-author-date-on-github.zerozr99.workers.dev

On Github's web UI, add an option to show AuthorDate. This doesn't match what git log shows and is relevant usually for rebases.

[toschlog]

Yes, please. We need a Settings option to select between Author Date and Commit Date on https://github.com/organization/repository/commits/branch.

[neverhoodboy]

Very much needed

[ASmedberg-woolpert]

getting up there on this being an unanswered question

[robarchibald]

This would be a huge benefit. We use a linear history, so PR reviews on the GitHub UI are mostly useless after the first review. For example, just today I went to re-review a PR. The initial review was performed after the first 5 commits on the branch. There have been 7 new commits since then and a rebase main. Unfortunately, the rebase main now makes it so that GitHub shows all 12 commits as being "new" since my last review. None of the 5 earlier commits were edited during the rebase, so I don't really want to see those again. I only want to see the diff on the last 7 commits.

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[jxu]

I hope Github can do better than a canned bot message