Bug#811565: [uscan] git mode: allow for scanning repositories without tags

[James McCoy]

On Sun, Jun 12, 2016 at 02:47:52AM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> Let me recall your last part of comment again:
> > downloading the last object, and parsing it for the date.
> 
> Can you show me this "parsing it for the date" part with an example
> shell activity?

The below will show the commit date of the last commit.  Adjust
accordingly to get the information for a specific commit.

$ git log -1 --pretty='format:%cd' --date='format:%Y%m%d'

Cheers,
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James
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