From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 10:19:08 GMT
Subject: Re: How do I specify a revision for "git blame" by date?
Message-ID: <m2sjdynqlf.fsf@igel.home>
In-Reply-To: <4fda029d.g99uVull9jgguc/Y%perryh@pluto.rain.com>

perryh@pluto.rain.com writes:

> How do I get "git blame" to operate "as of" a particular date in
> the past, without having to manually look up the corresponding
> SHA1 using "git rev-list"?  For example, I can get a report as of
> 2011-12-29 by doing something like:
>
>   $ git rev-list --all --date-order --format="%h %ai" .
>   ...
>   7c69106 2012-01-03 ...
>   b4227af 2011-12-27 ...
>   ...
>
>   $ git blame <file> b4227af

You can use any rev-list option, so --until=2011-12-27 should work.

Andreas.

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