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From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
Subject: Re: finding deleted file names
Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 20:32:24 +0000
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Cc: Geoff Russell <geoffrey.russell@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 09:31:55AM +0930, Geoff Russell wrote:
> 
> > git diff --diff-filter=D --name-only HEAD@{'7 days ago'}
> > 
> > finds files deleted during the last 7 days, but if my repository is
> > only 6 days old I get a
> > fatal error.
> > 
> > fatal: bad object HEAD@{7 days ago}
> 
> This should issue a warning, but use the oldest reflog entry. However,
> there is a slight problem with that. See below for details.
> 
> Shawn, does this seem sane to you?

Yea, this is the only reasonable thing to do here.  Ack.

-- 
Shawn.