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Re: Possible git blame bug?

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Mar 13, 2017, 21:29 UTC
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On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 1:38 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
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> Domagoj Stolfa <domagoj.stolfa@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> The question is whether this is a bug or not, as --since=<year> might not be a
>> valid filter.
>
> I do not think blame ever was designed to work with --since, so that
> is indeed the case.

Actually, I do see that we had a cut-off based on rev->max_age since we introduced it at cee7f245 ("git-pickaxe: blame rewritten.", 2006-10-19).

I do not know offhand if --since=2000 _means_ --since=2000-01-01 or something completely different, though.

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