From: Geoff Russell Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 02:45:37 GMT Subject: Re: finding deleted file names Message-ID: <93c3eada0807021945la3e565csc50eed4b14feb9c3@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <237967ef0807021812r3ccbfbacg2cb6b12358d2ee2e@mail.gmail.com> On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 10:42 AM, Mikael Magnusson wrote: > 2008/7/3 Geoff Russell : >> 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} >> >> Is there something that says "since repository creation", ie., go back as far >> as possible, but no further? Is there a symbolic name for the initial commit? > > There's no symbolic name for it, since there might not be only one initial > commit. git.git for example has at least three root commits. You will > probably get what you want with $(git rev-list HEAD|tail -1). If your > history is very large, $(git rev-list --reverse HEAD|head -1) is slightly > faster, but usually not enough to offset typing --reverse :). Thanks for this, but I'm a little confused. If I do a "git init", there must be a first commit after this? Isn't this the first commit, how can there be more than one first commit? Cheers, Geoff > > -- > Mikael Magnusson > -- 6 Fifth Ave, St Morris, S.A. 5068 Australia Ph: 041 8805 184 / 08 8332 5069