Re: finding deleted file names

From: Geoff Russell <geoffrey.russell@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 7, 2008, 00:41 UTC
Message-ID: <93c3eada0807061741s33e6da08lc1a8b04700d3a0dc@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7v63rjpp4s.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 2:47 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> "Geoff Russell" <geoffrey.russell@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On 7/4/08, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>>> "Geoff Russell" <geoffrey.russell@gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>  > ... I've made a bunch of changes to a repository, a few weeks later I
>>>
>>> > figure I've deleted a file I need but am not really sure of its name. So
>>>  > I want to list the files that I've deleted during the past few weeks.
>>>
>>>
>>> $ git log --pretty=oneline --diff-filter=D --name-only -M --since=90.days
>>
>> This is good, but on my version 1.5.5.1, is giving the commit-ids +
>> comments as well
>> as the names.
>
> Oh, I very much intended to give them, as --since=90.days is very broad
> that you would want to know which exact commit to learn when the found
> change was made anyway.
>

That's fine, the --name-only confused me, but I understand what is happening now.

Geoff.

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