[mythtv-users] I see major trouble ahead ...

[Bill Meek]

On 10/26/2014 04:41 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
...
 > Correct.  I date the ebuilds based on the date that I create the
> patches from fixes.  The ebuild contains the actual git commit, though
> the commit rate on fixes isn't that high.  Gentoo needs an orderable
> version number to detect upgrades/etc, and the date is as useful as
> anything else since git doesn't offer anything adequate here.
...

Git can produce a date if you like:

     git log --pretty="%ci" HEAD^..HEAD

returns the committer's date for the last commit:

     2014-10-24 15:00:16 +0100

(that's a 0.28-pre timestamp in case you're checking.)

There are a bunch of format choices, 'git help log' has a list.

-- 
Bill