Re: git equivalent to pulling the most recent date from ChangeLog?

[Daniel J S. <dan...@ie...>]

On 12/25/2017 01:10 PM, sfeam via gnuplot-beta wrote:
> Building from git tip fails to insert a valid date into
> the "last modified" field.   This used to be pulled from the
> top of ChangeLog and inserted into timestamp.h but that
> mechanism does not track the date of git commits.
> 
> On that note, I see that git commits keep their original date
> (of construction?) rather than the date they were committed.
> That means "git log" returns non-sequential dates in the
> history of changes.  That does not seem like a great idea.
> Is there a setting somewhere that tells git to stamp each
> commit with the current date instead?

There are two dates, author and commit.  Explore

https://www.git-scm.com/docs/git-log#_pretty_formats

and format the spacing, date contents, etc. the way desired.

Here's a start (the %cd stands for "commit date"):

git log --all --format='Author:      %an <%ae>%nCommit Date: %cd%n%n 
%s%n%n    %b'

Dan