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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: Why do dates in refspecs require the reflog?
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 12:55:48 -0800
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Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> writes:

> There is yet a third similar question: "What is the last commit that is
> currently on the master branch that was *authored* at least one year
> ago? Please note that this question is even subtler, because author
> timestamps are often out-of-order even on a single branch (whereas
> commit timestamps are usually in order). I don't know of a simple git
> command to answer this question.

--author-date-order?