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git log --since to not stop after first old commit?

From
Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@vmiklos.hu>
Date
Apr 1, 2022, 08:21 UTC
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Hi,

I wanted to look at commits of a contributor from the last year, and noticed that I only see commits from this year, not last year when I use:

        git log --author="that person" --since="1 year ago"

Digging around in the history, one other contributor pushed a mistake on 1st Jan, where the author date was supposed to be 2022-01-01, but happened to be 2021-01-01. Knowing that, it makes sense that 'git log' stopped at that commit by default.

I wonder though, is there any option to "force" git log to walk all reachable commits from HEAD, but just show the ones which match the --since criteria?

Or is this need so special that the best is to parse the output of 'git rev-list' and do my own filtering for author and date?

Thanks,
Miklos
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  1. Miklos VajnaApr 1, 2022
  2. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonApr 1, 2022
  3. Miklos VajnaApr 1, 2022
  4. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonApr 1, 2022
  5. Junio C HamanoApr 1, 2022
  6. git-log: add a --since-as-filter optionMiklos Vajna, Apr 1, 2022
  7. git-log: add a --since-as-filter optionMiklos Vajna, Apr 2, 2022
  8. Miklos VajnaApr 7, 2022
  9. Junio C HamanoApr 8, 2022
  10. Junio C HamanoApr 8, 2022
  11. git-log: add a --since=... --as-filter optionMiklos Vajna, Apr 8, 2022
  12. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonApr 12, 2022
  13. git-log: add a --since=... --as-filter optionMiklos Vajna, Apr 15, 2022
  14. Junio C HamanoApr 15, 2022
  15. log: "--as-filter" option adjusts how "--since" cut-off worksMiklos Vajna, Apr 16, 2022
  16. Miklos VajnaApr 22, 2022
  17. Miklos VajnaApr 11, 2022
  18. demerphqApr 11, 2022
  19. Junio C HamanoApr 11, 2022
  20. Junio C HamanoApr 22, 2022
  21. log: "--since-as-filter" option is a non-terminating "--since" variantMiklos Vajna, Apr 22, 2022
  22. Junio C HamanoApr 22, 2022
  23. log: "--since-as-filter" option is a non-terminating "--since" variantMiklos Vajna, Apr 23, 2022
  24. Junio C HamanoApr 22, 2022

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