Re: finding deleted file names

["Geoff Russell" <geoffrey.russell@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 10:42 AM, Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2008/7/3 Geoff Russell <geoffrey.russell@gmail.com>:
>> 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}
>>
>> Is there something that says "since repository creation", ie., go back as far
>> as possible, but no further? Is there a symbolic name for the initial commit?
>
> There's no symbolic name for it, since there might not be only one initial
> commit. git.git for example has at least three root commits. You will
> probably get what you want with $(git rev-list HEAD|tail -1). If your
> history is very large, $(git rev-list --reverse HEAD|head -1) is slightly
> faster, but usually not enough to offset typing --reverse :).

Thanks for this, but I'm a little confused.

If I do a "git init", there must be a first commit after this? Isn't
this the first commit, how
can there be more than one first commit?

Cheers,
Geoff

>
> --
> Mikael Magnusson
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