From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 06:51:29 GMT
Subject: Re: exporting the last N days of a repository
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0811030749470.22125@pacific.mpi-cbg.de.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <93c3eada0811021716y37ba999fkc2085b1060fbea2d@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Mon, 3 Nov 2008, Geoff Russell wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 1:40 AM, Johannes Schindelin
> <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 29 Oct 2008, Geoff Russell wrote:
> >
> >> I want to export "the last N days" of a repository to create a copy 
> >> which has an origin which is the state of the repository N days ago 
> >> and has all the history between then and now.
> >>
> >> Can fast-export do this?
> >
> > Yes.  See the --since=... option.
> 
> Sorry, I didn't explain what I want very well.  N days ago I had a 
> working directory in a state S with files F1,F2,F3,...  I want to dump 
> all the history before then so that this is my new starting point, so I 
> want to keep all changes since then.

Well, if you are interested in the history of your _local_ ref, then you 
should use reflogs:

	$ git log --since=HEAD@{10.days.ago}

Hth,
Dscho

P.S.: man git-reflog