From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: Geoff Russell <geoffrey.russell@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: finding deleted file names
Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 12:57:22 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0807031255230.9925@racer> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <93c3eada0807021701m13b7adddv51537f4cf9d52533@mail.gmail.com>
Hi,
On Thu, 3 Jul 2008, 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}
Sorry, but you haven't grasped the concept of reflogs. The "@{...}" is
purely for the _local_ state.
So clearly, if you did not have the repo 7 days ago, "HEAD@{7.days.ago}"
does not exist.
In a distributed SCM, asking about a branch's state "7 days ago" is
ill-defined at best.
Hth,
Dscho
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-03 12:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-03 0:01 finding deleted file names Geoff Russell
2008-07-03 1:12 ` Mikael Magnusson
2008-07-03 2:45 ` Geoff Russell
2008-07-03 3:18 ` Mikael Magnusson
2008-07-03 10:42 ` Jeff King
2008-07-04 6:45 ` Geoff Russell
2008-07-04 7:05 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-06 4:54 ` Geoff Russell
2008-07-06 5:17 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-07 0:41 ` Geoff Russell
2008-07-03 9:20 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-07-03 10:36 ` Jeff King
2008-07-03 19:41 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-03 19:47 ` Jeff King
2008-07-03 20:32 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-07-03 11:57 ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]
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