Re: finding deleted file names

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Jul 3, 2008, 20:32 UTC
Message-ID: <20080703203224.GA7663@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080703103658.GA11571@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:

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> On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 09:31:55AM +0930, 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}
> 
> This should issue a warning, but use the oldest reflog entry. However,
> there is a slight problem with that. See below for details.
> 
> Shawn, does this seem sane to you?

Yea, this is the only reasonable thing to do here.  Ack.

-- 
Shawn.