get the last modification data of a file in git repo

Question

Im trying to find the command to get the last modified date of a file in a local git repo.

Created the repo and have done one commit. Had to edit one file and will commi

Answer 1

The correct way to do this is to use git log as follows.

git log -1 --pretty="format:%ci" /path/to/repo/anyfile.any)

-1 restricts it to the very last time the file changed

%ci is just one of the date formats you can choose from others here at https://git-scm.com/docs/pretty-formats

This method is fool proof and 100% accurate.