Git commit date

Question

Other than parsing git log for the date string  is there a Git native way to report the date of a certain commit

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The show command may be what you want  Try  git show -s --format  ci  lt commit gt    Other formats for the date string are available as well  Check the manual page for details

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if you got troubles with windows cmd command and  bat just escape percents like that  git show -s --format   ct      The   character has a special meaning for command line parameters and FOR parameters     To treat a percent as a regular character  double it       Syntax   Escape Characters  Delimiters and Quotes

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If you want to see only the date of a tag you d do   git show -s --format  ci  lt mytagname gt   commit    which gives  2013-11-06 13 22 37  0100  Or do   git show -s --format  ct  lt mytagname gt   commit    which gives UNIX timestamp  1383740557

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If you like to have the timestamp without the timezone but local timezone do   git log -1 --format  cd --date local   Which gives this depending on your location  Mon Sep 28 12 07 37 2015

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You can use the git show command  To get the last commit date from git repository in a long Unix epoch timestamp    Command  git show -s --format  ct Result  1605103148  Note  You can visit the git-show documentation to get a more detailed description of the options

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