Confusion on the latest git

Confusion on the latest git

[Stuff Received]

I "git pull" every once in a while and then build, noting which version 
is being built via "git log".

Git log shows the following:

commit 62a0ef0d02cbb74cd865c1db2ecb7ca1b11f87cd
Author: Nathaniel Shead <nathanieloshead@gmail.com>
Date:   Sat Feb 17 23:10:49 2024 +1100
[...]
commit 3319d1a4aa5ccadc22dcb80252ab884c792b263b
Author: GCC Administrator <gccadmin@gcc.gnu.org>
Date:   Sun Apr 14 00:16:53 2024 +0000
[...]
commit a9d3b3caef87d76072c946145d21e7606b303e12
Author: Mark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org>
Date:   Sat Apr 13 23:02:14 2024 +0200


Why does Shead's commit appear first after the daily bump and Wielaard's 
commit when the date is before the latter?

S.

Re: Confusion on the latest git

[Paul Smith]

On Mon, 2024-04-15 at 18:45 -0400, Stuff Received wrote:
> I "git pull" every once in a while and then build, noting which
> version is being built via "git log".
> 
>  [...]
> 
> Why does Shead's commit appear first after the daily bump and
> Wielaard's commit when the date is before the latter?

Because you are looking at the author date.  The author date tells you
the date that the author created the commit.  But that might be very
different from the date when the commit was pushed to the remote.

If you want to see the latter date you want the committed date.  You
can see info on both the author and the committer by adding
"--pretty=fuller" (among other options) to "git log".

Generally git sorts by date committed, not date authored.

Re: Confusion on the latest git

[Stuff Received]

On 2024-04-15 19:09, Paul Smith wrote (in part):
> If you want to see the latter date you want the committed date.  You
> can see info on both the author and the committer by adding
> "--pretty=fuller" (among other options) to "git log".
> 
> Generally git sorts by date committed, not date authored.

Thank you.