From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 21:19:42 GMT
Subject: Re: Joining cg-*-id
Message-ID: <17201.52846.627734.327798@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0509210750060.2553@g5.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds writes:

> Oooh. I can't. Very strange. I definitely could yesterday:  
> "--since=yesterday" worked, but "--since='1 week ago'" didn't.

Ahhh... "--since='1 week ago'" doesn't work because of the extra set
of single quotes: we end up doing:

	git-rev-parse --default HEAD "--since='1 week ago'"

which gives this error:

	date: invalid date `'1 week ago''
	fatal: git-rev-list: bad date string

Gitk's error message is admittedly less than informative, but that's
the worst it's guilty of (this time :).

Paul.