Importing `git log` data into RethinkDB

gistfile1.sh

git log --pretty=format:"%H|%ae|%at|%s" |                \
  python -c "                                            \
    import rethinkdb as r;                               \
    import sys;                                          \
    r.connect().repl();                                  \
    r.table_create('commits').run();                     \
    r.table('commits').insert([dict(map(lambda x, y: [x, y],                 \
                                        ['id', 'email', 'date', 'subject'],  \
                                        line.split('|', 3)))                 \
                               for line in sys.stdin])                       \
     .run(durability='soft');                                                \
    r.table('commits')                                                       \
     .update({'date': r.epoch_time(r.row['date'].coerce_to('number')) })     \
     .run(durability='soft');"