Wrap git version-date extraction into a somewhat reusable function
-rw-r--r-- 100 .gitignore
-rw-r--r-- 99 AUTHORS
-rw-r--r-- 1585 COPYING
-rw-r--r-- 1969 ChangeLog
drwxr-xr-x - codetags
drwxr-xr-x - debian
-rwxr-xr-x 1449 setup.py