Git Log Relative Committer Date 📝

Git log format strings are endlessly interesting to me. There are so many different ways to display the data.

Today I learned a new one, %cr. This formats your commit from the committer date, relative to now. After pulling from the remote, use it like this to see how long ago the latest commmit was committed:

$ git log -1 --format=%cr
8 hours ago

I use this command when surveying a Github organization, or an old computer with lots of dusty projects laying around.

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