commit - e98ec79bc0b070b5256849711710a07b5041f456
commit + 9a2e7ad4870891a7244450ed93be14d82bbd104b
blob - 1905092a295380908b5d5a8350e9e6543dd7d183
blob + 88997c4dc6287b86ef27dd022bbeadf189573cb0
--- cvg/cvg.c
+++ cvg/cvg.c
@@ -3345,7 +3345,7 @@ done:
 }
 
 static char *
-get_datestr(time_t *time, char *datebuf)
+get_datestr(const time_t *time, char *datebuf)
 {
 	struct tm mytm, *tm;
 	char *p, *s;
@@ -3633,6 +3633,18 @@ printfile(FILE *f)
 	return NULL;
 }
 
+/* print a date line unless an error occurs (or fail silently) */
+static void
+print_date(const char *prefix, const time_t *t)
+{
+	char datebuf[26];
+	char *datestr;
+
+	datestr = get_datestr(t, datebuf);
+	if (datestr)
+		printf("%s %s UTC\n", prefix, datestr);
+}
+
 static const struct got_error *
 print_commit(struct got_commit_object *commit, struct got_object_id *id,
     struct got_repository *repo, const char *path,
@@ -3643,9 +3655,8 @@ print_commit(struct got_commit_object *commit, struct 
 {
 	const struct got_error *err = NULL;
 	FILE *f = NULL;
-	char *id_str, *datestr, *logmsg0, *logmsg, *line;
-	char datebuf[26];
-	time_t committer_time;
+	char *id_str, *logmsg0, *logmsg, *line;
+	time_t author_time, committer_time;
 	const char *author, *committer;
 	char *refs_str = NULL;
 
@@ -3675,15 +3686,20 @@ print_commit(struct got_commit_object *commit, struct 
 	id_str = NULL;
 	free(refs_str);
 	refs_str = NULL;
-	printf("from: %s\n", got_object_commit_get_author(commit));
+
+	/* author and committer data */
 	author = got_object_commit_get_author(commit);
+	author_time = got_object_commit_get_author_time(commit);
 	committer = got_object_commit_get_committer(commit);
+	committer_time = got_object_commit_get_committer_time(commit);
+	printf("from: %s\n", got_object_commit_get_author(commit));
 	if (strcmp(author, committer) != 0)
 		printf("via: %s\n", committer);
-	committer_time = got_object_commit_get_committer_time(commit);
-	datestr = get_datestr(&committer_time, datebuf);
-	if (datestr)
-		printf("date: %s UTC\n", datestr);
+	print_date("date:", &committer_time);
+	if (author_time != committer_time)
+		print_date("orig:", &author_time);
+
+	/* parent commits */
 	if (got_object_commit_get_nparents(commit) > 1) {
 		const struct got_object_id_queue *parent_ids;
 		struct got_object_qid *qid;