github/gitscm-next — pull request #185 by carlosmn (2012-09-25 14:58:02+00:00)
Title: donloads: show the installer/package release date

Yet Another Msygit Fix. Store the installer's release date as a
separate field, as it's not always the date that the version was
tagged.

This allows us to report the correct release date in the /download/win
page. Unfortunately the msysgit downloads aren't always uploaded to
github on the date that the installer has, so we need to parse it to
get the release date.

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After the migration, the Mac page will still show the wrong date until the next `rake downloads` run, but the date issue for Mac is much less important than for Windows, which will have the right date from the start.

@sschuberth what do you think? as long as the filename format doesn't change, this should keep working. If the downloads on the github repo start getting the right timestamp, we can simplify this so we take it instead of parsing the filename.