thanks for the advice, I like the idea of the date/time format. as far as the log command is concerned, I have not been able to get it to work. Attached are some of the attempts I made, all of which failed. Do you have a specific example of how to use this command to get the date/time for a specific commit? again, I apologize for asking such obvious questions, but I find the git documentation to be unintelligible, and I am deliberately trying to approach this from the point of view of a non-expert user, not a programmer.
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C:\Users\penne_000\AppData\Roaming\InkscapeGit>git log --pretty='format:%H %ci' fatal: ambiguous argument '%ci'': unknown revision or path not in the working tree. Use '--' to separate paths from revisions, like this: 'git <command> [<revision>...] -- [<file>...]'
C:\Users\penne_000\AppData\Roaming\InkscapeGit>git log --pretty='format:%H %ci' 12345678 fatal: ambiguous argument '%ci'': unknown revision or path not in the working tree. Use '--' to separate paths from revisions, like this: 'git <command> [<revision>...] -- [<file>...]'
C:\Users\penne_000\AppData\Roaming\InkscapeGit>git log --pretty='format:%H %ci' 0edfdf95 fatal: ambiguous argument '%ci'': unknown revision or path not in the working tree. Use '--' to separate paths from revisions, like this: 'git <command> [<revision>...] -- [<file>...]'
C:\Users\penne_000\AppData\Roaming\InkscapeGit>git log --pretty='format:%H %ci' '0edfdf95' fatal: ambiguous argument '%ci'': unknown revision or path not in the working tree. Use '--' to separate paths from revisions, like this: 'git <command> [<revision>...] -- [<file>...]'
C:\Users\penne_000\AppData\Roaming\InkscapeGit>git log --pretty='format:%H %ci' commit 0edfdf95 fatal: ambiguous argument '%ci'': unknown revision or path not in the working tree. Use '--' to separate paths from revisions, like this: 'git <command> [<revision>...] -- [<file>...]'
C:\Users\penne_000\AppData\Roaming\InkscapeGit>git log --pretty='format:%H %ci' commit <0edfdf95> The syntax of the command is incorrect.
C:\Users\penne_000\AppData\Roaming\InkscapeGit>git log --pretty='format:%H %ci' <0edfdf95> The syntax of the command is incorrect.
C:\Users\penne_000\AppData\Roaming\InkscapeGit>git log --pretty='format:%H' <0edfdf95> The syntax of the command is incorrect.
C:\Users\penne_000\AppData\Roaming\InkscapeGit>git log --pretty='format:%H' 0edfdf95 'format:0edfdf950796befdb42ab9b2ef76c76483d9dbb1'
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