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From:   Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To:     Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
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On Tue, Oct 03, 2023 at 08:31:24PM +0000, Eric Wong wrote:

> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> > I know that you asked for a persistent process, but just for reference,
> > you can hackily access approxidate with:
> > 
> >   git config --type=expiry-date --default='15 days ago' does.not.exist
> 
> --type is too new (trying to support 1.8.x :<).  But yeah, using
> `git rev-parse --since=15.days.ago` and extracting the integers

Ah, that is probably less hacky than my suggestion anyway.

-Peff