From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 09:38:31 GMT
Subject: Re: [BUG] git shortlog: need a range!
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0611291034340.30004@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <7v8xhv2uj1.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Hi,

On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> I just got this:
> 
>         $ git shortlog --since=Oct.20 --until=Nov.20 master
>         fatal: Need a range!
> 
> Why isn't this a range?

It really is not. Think about this scenario:

A - B - C
  \   /
    D

where both B and D were done after Oct.20, but not A. Then you do not have 
a range, i.e. you cannot represent the same in the form X..Y.

However, this only shows that my reasoning in shortlog was wrong. It was 
meant to prevent accidentally traversing the _whole_ history (which does 
take some time), but maybe even this is something people want to do?

Therefore: Ack on René's patch.

Ciao,
Dscho