How to show date and time of a commit by hash

Question

I used git reflog to identify a hash for when I created a particular branch. I got the hash of fe1ddcdef. I haven't pushed this branch to the remote yet. I'm now trying to find the date and time for when fe1ddcdef took place. git reflog only shows me:

fe1ddcdef HEAD@{11}: checkout: moving from master to handoff

which does not have a date or time.

git log is far too verbose, since it contains commits from all of my colleagues and I can't easily find the needle of fe1ddcdef in that haystack.

How can I simply find the date and time of commit fe1ddcdef?

Answer 1

Simply use :

git show fe1ddcdef 

… to display the content of the commit. Actually, once you have any expression that identifies a commit object, you can use it in all places that require a revision. These expressions can be an hexadecimal hash (even partial), a branch name or a tag name. It can also be one of these, associated to one or many operators such as "^", or "~", or "@".

This means that you can also use git log fe1ddcdef to get the full history of the branch starting from this point.

If you want to get only date and time of it and nothing else, you can type :

git show --no-patch --no-notes --pretty='%cd' fe1ddcdef 

Replace '%cd' by '%h %cd %s' to add hash summary and commit's subject message.