GIT_COMMITTER_DATE="$(git show -s --format=%at HEAD)" git commit(1) --amend -C HEAD
A variable may be assigned to by a statement of the form

       name=[value]

If value is not given, the variable is assigned the null string.  All  values  undergo  tilde  expansion,
parameter  and  variable  expansion,  command  substitution, arithmetic expansion, and quote removal (see
EXPANSION below).  If the variable has  its  integer  attribute  set,  then  value  is  evaluated  as  an
arithmetic  expression even if the $((...)) expansion is not used (see Arithmetic Expansion below).  Word
splitting is not performed, with the exception of "$@"  as  explained  below  under  Special  Parameters.
Pathname  expansion  is  not performed.  Assignment statements may also appear as arguments to the alias,
declare, typeset, export, readonly, and local builtin commands.

In the context where an assignment statement is assigning a value to a shell variable or array index, the
+=  operator  can  be used to append to or add to the variable's previous value.  When += is applied to a
variable for which the integer attribute has been set, value is evaluated as an arithmetic expression and
added  to the variable's current value, which is also evaluated.  When += is applied to an array variable
using compound assignment (see Arrays below), the variable's value is not unset (as it is when using  =),
and  new  values  are  appended to the array beginning at one greater than the array's maximum index (for
indexed arrays) or added as additional key-value pairs in  an  associative  array.   When  applied  to  a
string-valued variable, value is expanded and appended to the variable's value.
Record changes to the repository
--amend
    Used to amend the tip of the current branch. Prepare the tree object you would want to replace the
    latest commit as usual (this includes the usual -i/-o and explicit paths), and the commit log editor
    is seeded with the commit message from the tip of the current branch. The commit you create replaces
    the current tip — if it was a merge, it will have the parents of the current tip as parents — so the
    current top commit is discarded.

    It is a rough equivalent for:

                       $ git reset --soft HEAD^
                       $ ... do something else to come up with the right tree ...
                       $ git commit -c ORIG_HEAD

           but can be used to amend a merge commit.

           You should understand the implications of rewriting history if you amend a commit that has already
           been published. (See the "RECOVERING FROM UPSTREAM REBASE" section in git-rebase(1).)
-C <commit>, --reuse-message=<commit>
    Take an existing commit object, and reuse the log message and the authorship information (including
    the timestamp) when creating the commit.
source manpages: git-commit