GitHead questions from the uninitiated

[Vangelis forthnet]

On Tue Dec 2 22:40:34 GMT 2014, Peter S Kirk wrote:

>> I presume GitHead is a way of advising interim patches prior to issuing
>> an official update? But I'm puzzled, how do we know when this has been
>> updated? It not like some file list where we can see the date stamp of
>> the files.
> ...
> Please would you add/include a date and time to the githead updates.
> A version number would also be a useful addition: 2.90.0x

Git HEAD is the most recent revision (commit) of the code in the Git 
repository;
what I do is browse the main git repo via http (I am on Windows) through 
this URL:

http://git.infradead.org/get_iplayer.git

At the time of writing, the most recent commit is the one titled
"Strip line breaks for --info output", which has a shortened object name 
e418217
and was commited on  Tue, 2 Dec 2014 11:23:30Z.
So, if you update to the Git HEAD version of the script NOW,
the version you are using would be get_iplayer-git-e418217.
If you write this down for reference, you know where you are
in the evolution of the code...
As for updates, you can subscribe to the corresponding feed:

http://git.infradead.org/get_iplayer.git/rss

Dinkypumpkin maintains a mirror of the infradead git repo on GitHub:

https://github.com/dinkypumpkin/get_iplayer

By subscribing to

https://github.com/dinkypumpkin/get_iplayer/commits/master.atom

you can also be informed about updates to the code...
Of course my answer to Alan & Peter's query is not a
legitimate one, since I am not a coder, just an empirical one...
I struggle to understand the intricacies of Git -

http://git-scm.com/book/en/v2

is a place I started from...

EDIT: Just prior to hitting "Send", I saw that Shevek
beat me to it! Well done, sir!

Vangelis.