Re: git log decipher

From: Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Jul 21, 2011, 01:50 UTC
Message-ID: <CAJo=hJvvsqki3tLoQRjgf7vQpcH6EHMXXxUbYALw8MvtLzF=gA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 18:39, gbhumphrey <greg_spam@gbhumphrey.com> wrote:

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> Hi so in the .git/logs/refs/heads there are log files, i'm tryign to decipher
> the timestamp, at least I think it's a time stamp. An entry looks like this:
> a391d7a96af8c06a626eec23565ceccef81bc350
> fdfb6d8c87521d56d8a6034e8575304013ecdd6c Greg Humphrey &lt;XXX@XXXX.com&gt;
> 1307594233 -0700        merge US199: Merge made by recursive.
>
> The "1307594233 -0700" seems to be a timestamp, but I'm not sure what
> format, anyone have any ideas how to convert to a human readable?

The first number is the seconds since the UNIX epoch. A standard time_t... in base 10. :-)

The second number is the timezone offset from GMT, in HHMM format. So -0700 is 7 hours behind GMT.

Its the same format as what appears in a Git commit object for either the author or committer line.

-- 
Shawn.