Support with finding git objects

Hello everyone,

Hope this message finds you. I need your support regarding an issue my team is facing.
We have a code in our SW which shall display the date of the git commit. There is a path in the code that if it is executed on a platform where git is not installed, that this commit date shall be found by looking at:
1.      Reading from HEAD file the commit hash
2.      Searching for this commit hash under .git/objects
The problem we are facing is that sometimes, when the default master branch is updated with the newest commit, this commit will not be found locally, even after doing git pull and so on...
The commit can be found with:
1.      git log
2.      git cat-file -t <commit hash> -> it returns "commit"
3.      git reflog

but the strange thing is that we can neither find it under .git/objects/ nor under .git/objects/pack (although that is the newest commit and shall not be packed).

Can you please provide support by:
1.      telling me it that is an issue or is it expected?
2.      If that is expected, where shall we find this commit object to retrieve the commit message and date from it (without running git commands)?
3.      Or recommending me some other solution

I would appreciate that.

Best regards,

Toufic Ayoub Software Developer Hemodynamic Algorithms Hospital Patient Monitoring Philips

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