From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Jiergir Ogoerg <f35f22fan@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Possibly a bug
Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2013 04:49:47 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131117094946.GA22166@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJbVpmyoZCCQU3w8oMTJfxFr4f1cSNTgF+qQW6QD5e44LYg_Ug@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 04:59:20AM +0200, Jiergir Ogoerg wrote:
> As suggested by the git book/tutorial I cloned "simplegit-progit" to
> learn using git.
> The issue:
> git log --since=5.years
> yields 2 commits, while
> git log --since=6.years
> yields 3 commits, despite the "Date" in both cases being March 2008.
> Is it a bug?
No, but it is confusing.
The `--since` and `--until` flags use the committer date, not the author
date. Try `git log --pretty=fuller`, and you will see that the author
and committer dates do not match for the top two commits (their
committer date is within 5 years).
Usually the two dates are the same, but they can be different if a
commit is rebased, or applied via patch.
-Peff
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2013-11-17 2:59 Possibly a bug Jiergir Ogoerg
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