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

Git doesn't record the last modification date, only the commit/author dates for a all commit (which can include more than one file).

You would need to run a script in order to amend a commit with the last modification date of a particular file (not very useful if said commit has more than one file in it).
See an example at "Git: Change timestamp after pushing".

Another option would be to record those timestamp in a separate file, and amend your commit that way: see "What's the equivalent of use-commit-times for git?".

That includes:

1. mtimestore - core script providing 3 options:
   • -a (save all - for initialization in already existing repo (works with git-versed files)),
   • -s (to save staged changes), and
   • -r to restore them.
2. pre-commit hook
3. post-checkout hook

Incidentally, this is the post where I explained 5 years ago why Git doesn't record timestamps.