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Re: Consistency question

From
David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Date
Jan 15, 2014, 11:55 UTC
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<87wqi17949.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> There are some parts of the code that will behave badly with clock skew.
> For example, "--since" will stop traversing when we hit a certain point.
> It requires a fixed number of "too old" commits before quitting, though,
> in an attempt to bypass small runs of skewed clocks.

That actually turns out to be a somewhat sore point for me: I use something like

git shortlog -n --since 2013/12/01 --until 2014/01/01 master

for generating statistics on LilyPond when I am doing my monthly report begging the community for money.

It turns out that the numbers of commits attributed to me tend to go _down_ quite regularly in the time from starting the report to sending it out. Which might also cause me to overlook a particularly selfpraiseworthy item.

Not sure how feasible it would be to arrive at a stable and complementary set of --since/--until.

-- 
David Kastrup
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  5. David KastrupJan 15, 2014
  6. Andreas KreyJan 15, 2014
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