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How to show an annotated tag's timestamp?

Subject: How to show an annotated tag's timestamp?

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4 messages between Aug 12, 2008 and Aug 14, 2008.

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Dirk Süsserott· Aug 12, 2008, 19:40 UTC · lore

I'd like to display *when* a certain annotated tag was created, i.e. its timestamp. I know two ways but am looking for a third one:

Gitk: When clicking the yellow tag item (called 'testtag'
in my case) it says:
-------------
object 9a04a26d3e5ea09be32934f50020d0286ebe7325
type commit
tag testtag
tagger <tagger's name> <tagger's email-address> 1218568300 +0200
-------------
Well, I can convert 1218568300 into some human readable string,
but that's not convenient.

So I tried 'git show testtag'. It says:
-------------
(*) tag testtag
(*) Tagger: <tagger's name> <tagger's email-address>
(*) Date:   Tue Aug 12 21:17:17 2008 +0200
(*)
(*) testtag
commit 0a62b3380d21bf65270490619da4a2efd6d2ca7a
Author: ...
Date:   Thu Apr 24 18:49:38 2008 +0200
[...]
-------------

... followed by the whole commit message and diff of the commit that's pointed to by the tag. That's too much for my purpose.

Is there a way to output only when and by whom the tag was created (incl. the tag's messsage), i.e. the lines above marked with (*)?

AHA,
   Dirk

Mikael Magnusson· Aug 12, 2008, 20:35 UTC · re: Dirk Süsserott · lore

Re: How to show an annotated tag's timestamp?

2008/8/12 Dirk Süsserott <newsletter@dirk.my1.cc>:

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> I'd like to display *when* a certain annotated tag was
> created, i.e. its timestamp. I know two ways but am looking
> for a third one:
>
> Gitk: When clicking the yellow tag item (called 'testtag'
> in my case) it says:
> -------------
> object 9a04a26d3e5ea09be32934f50020d0286ebe7325
> type commit
> tag testtag
> tagger <tagger's name> <tagger's email-address> 1218568300 +0200
> -------------
> Well, I can convert 1218568300 into some human readable string,
> but that's not convenient.
>
> So I tried 'git show testtag'. It says:
> -------------
> (*) tag testtag
> (*) Tagger: <tagger's name> <tagger's email-address>
> (*) Date:   Tue Aug 12 21:17:17 2008 +0200
> (*)
> (*) testtag
> commit 0a62b3380d21bf65270490619da4a2efd6d2ca7a
> Author: ...
> Date:   Thu Apr 24 18:49:38 2008 +0200
> [...]
> -------------
>
> ... followed by the whole commit message and diff of the
> commit that's pointed to by the tag. That's too much for
> my purpose.
>
> Is there a way to output only when and by whom the tag
> was created (incl. the tag's messsage), i.e. the lines
> above marked with (*)?

% git show -s --pretty=format: v1.6.0-rc2
tag v1.6.0-rc2
Tagger: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date:   Wed Aug 6 14:00:41 2008 -0700

GIT 1.6.0-rc2
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Marcus Griep· Aug 12, 2008, 20:36 UTC · re: Dirk Süsserott · lore

Re: How to show an annotated tag's timestamp?

Try this:

git log --pretty=format:"Tagger: %an <%ae>%nDate: %ad%n%n%b" -1 v1.6.0-rc1

Dirk Süsserott wrote:

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> I'd like to display *when* a certain annotated tag was
> created, i.e. its timestamp. I know two ways but am looking
> for a third one:
> 
> Gitk: When clicking the yellow tag item (called 'testtag'
> in my case) it says:
> -------------
> object 9a04a26d3e5ea09be32934f50020d0286ebe7325
> type commit
> tag testtag
> tagger <tagger's name> <tagger's email-address> 1218568300 +0200
> -------------
> Well, I can convert 1218568300 into some human readable string,
> but that's not convenient.
> 
> So I tried 'git show testtag'. It says:
> -------------
> (*) tag testtag
> (*) Tagger: <tagger's name> <tagger's email-address>
> (*) Date:   Tue Aug 12 21:17:17 2008 +0200
> (*)
> (*) testtag
> commit 0a62b3380d21bf65270490619da4a2efd6d2ca7a
> Author: ...
> Date:   Thu Apr 24 18:49:38 2008 +0200
> [...]
> -------------
> 
> ... followed by the whole commit message and diff of the
> commit that's pointed to by the tag. That's too much for
> my purpose.
> 
> Is there a way to output only when and by whom the tag
> was created (incl. the tag's messsage), i.e. the lines
> above marked with (*)?
> 
> AHA,
>   Dirk
> 
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Alex Riesen· Aug 14, 2008, 22:00 UTC · re: Dirk Süsserott · lore

Re: How to show an annotated tag's timestamp?

Dirk Süsserott, Tue, Aug 12, 2008 21:40:41 +0200:

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>
> Is there a way to output only when and by whom the tag
> was created (incl. the tag's messsage), i.e. the lines
> above marked with (*)?
>

    ~/linux$ git cat-file -p v2.6.27-rc3
    object 30a2f3c60a84092c8084dfe788b710f8d0768cd4
    type commit
    tag v2.6.27-rc3
    tagger Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Tue Aug 12 18:55:58 2008 -0700

    Linux 2.6.27-rc3
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