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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

      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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