From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:57:22 GMT
Subject: Re: finding deleted file names
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0807031255230.9925@racer>
In-Reply-To: <93c3eada0807021701m13b7adddv51537f4cf9d52533@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Thu, 3 Jul 2008, Geoff Russell wrote:

> git diff --diff-filter=D --name-only HEAD@{'7 days ago'}
> 
> finds files deleted during the last 7 days, but if my repository is
> only 6 days old I get a
> fatal error.
> 
> fatal: bad object HEAD@{7 days ago}

Sorry, but you haven't grasped the concept of reflogs.  The "@{...}" is 
purely for the _local_ state.

So clearly, if you did not have the repo 7 days ago, "HEAD@{7.days.ago}" 
does not exist.

In a distributed SCM, asking about a branch's state "7 days ago" is 
ill-defined at best.

Hth,
Dscho