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Date-based limits (Was Re: GIT 0.99.9)

From
Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Date
Oct 31, 2005, 23:47 UTC
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<Pine.LNX.4.64.0510311820060.25300@iabervon.org>
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<Pine.LNX.4.64.0510301838110.27915@g5.osdl.org>
On Sun, 30 Oct 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> (The danger with date-based things is that something may be 4 months old, 
> but it only got _merged_ yesterday, so it may be new to _you_. And the 
> --since="2 weeks ago" will not show it, which can be surprising to people 
> who expect things that are new to _them_ to be shown).

At some point, we might want to have a series of refs tracking changes to the user's heads over time. Then the right set of arguments could actually handle "what would I have seen on Thursday, when I hadn't pulled since Tuesday, and upstream got some changes on Wednesday that I got on Friday, and it's Saturday now." (That is, Wednesday's commits hadn't hit the local repository yet; the commit that we got to is dated Friday for local purposes, and the latest as of Thursday is dated Tuesday, which is the last time the ref file was modified.)

And we probably don't want to fetch or clone this stuff; I doubt most people want to know the history from somebody else's point of view. At least, I can't think of a use for it that wouldn't be better served by asking whoever for the hash out of their history.

	-Daniel
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Message 21 of 26 in “GIT 0.99.9”
  1. Junio C HamanoOct 30, 2005
  2. A Large Angry SCMOct 30, 2005
  3. Junio C HamanoOct 30, 2005
  4. A Large Angry SCMOct 30, 2005
  5. Johannes SchindelinOct 30, 2005
  6. Linus TorvaldsOct 30, 2005
  7. rev-list --sparse?Junio C Hamano, Oct 30, 2005
  8. Linus TorvaldsOct 30, 2005
  9. Junio C HamanoOct 30, 2005
  10. Wolfgang DenkOct 30, 2005
  11. Junio C HamanoOct 30, 2005
  12. Wolfgang DenkOct 30, 2005
  13. Junio C HamanoOct 30, 2005
  14. Wolfgang DenkOct 30, 2005
  15. Ryan AndersonOct 30, 2005
  16. Junio C HamanoOct 30, 2005
  17. H. Peter AnvinOct 30, 2005
  18. Linus TorvaldsOct 31, 2005
  19. Junio C HamanoOct 31, 2005
  20. Linus TorvaldsOct 31, 2005
  21. Date-based limits (Was Re: GIT 0.99.9)Daniel Barkalow, Oct 31, 2005
  22. Junio C HamanoNov 1, 2005
  23. Daniel BarkalowNov 1, 2005
  24. rev-list: make --max- and --min-age a bit more usable.Junio C Hamano, Nov 2, 2005
  25. Linus TorvaldsNov 3, 2005
  26. Junio C HamanoNov 3, 2005

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