Re: git log use of date format differs between Command Line and script usage.

From: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Date: Jun 30, 2017, 16:43 UTC
Message-ID: <CAGZ79kZxde9j+O4JDofYLbC2CRk_X0tiwOftEgKQcJLyN409xQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CADHEqX_fiUhnpn6WAFrbDaNJTb1Vbom7Ndn-n6WmQ0gkQ69ZeA@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 9:06 AM, Shaun Uldrikis <stuldrikis@gmail.com> wrote:

> If you supply a non-standard format to the date configuration for git
> log, something like:
> [log]
>         date = format:%Y-%m-%d %H:%M

So I ran

    $ git config log.date  "format:%Y-%m-%d %H:%M"
    $ git config --list |grep log.date
    log.date=format:%Y-%m-%d %H:%M

Then I have a script as
  $ cat script.sh
  #!/bin/sh

  git log >out

after executing I get:

  $ head out
  commit 7930db48ca31b41ac335ae8cd25cb29094d1de5e
  Author: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
  Date:   2017-06-30 09:26

Also gitk seems to work here.

Rene's answer sounds reasonable, check the version(s) of Git on your system?