* Possibly a bug
@ 2013-11-17 2:59 Jiergir Ogoerg
2013-11-17 9:49 ` Jeff King
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From: Jiergir Ogoerg @ 2013-11-17 2:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: git
Hi,
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?
Using Fedora 20 amd64 with git version 1.8.4.2
Details:
//==> FIVE YEARS
simplegit-progit$ git log --since=5.years
commit ca82a6dff817ec66f44342007202690a93763949
Author: Scott Chacon <schacon@gmail.com>
Date: Mon Mar 17 21:52:11 2008 -0700
changed the verison number
commit 085bb3bcb608e1e8451d4b2432f8ecbe6306e7e7
Author: Scott Chacon <schacon@gmail.com>
Date: Sat Mar 15 16:40:33 2008 -0700
removed unnecessary test code
//<== FIVE YEARS
//==> SIX YEARS
simplegit-progit$ git log --since=6.years
commit ca82a6dff817ec66f44342007202690a93763949
Author: Scott Chacon <schacon@gmail.com>
Date: Mon Mar 17 21:52:11 2008 -0700
changed the verison number
commit 085bb3bcb608e1e8451d4b2432f8ecbe6306e7e7
Author: Scott Chacon <schacon@gmail.com>
Date: Sat Mar 15 16:40:33 2008 -0700
removed unnecessary test code
commit a11bef06a3f659402fe7563abf99ad00de2209e6
Author: Scott Chacon <schacon@gmail.com>
Date: Sat Mar 15 10:31:28 2008 -0700
first commit
//<== SIX YEARS
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2013-11-17 2:59 Possibly a bug Jiergir Ogoerg
@ 2013-11-17 9:49 ` Jeff King
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From: Jeff King @ 2013-11-17 9:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jiergir Ogoerg; +Cc: git
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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