From: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
To: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@vmiklos.hu>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git log --since to not stop after first old commit?
Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2022 15:51:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <220401.86czi0oqfl.gmgdl@evledraar.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YkbQnnB8GSzuAROh@vmiklos.hu>
On Fri, Apr 01 2022, Miklos Vajna wrote:
> Hi Ævar,
>
> On Fri, Apr 01, 2022 at 11:57:33AM +0200, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> wrote:
>> So (just making sure I understand this) in this case the --since option
>> is behaving as expected in the sense that the information in the commit
>> itself matches what it's finding, but what you'd really like for it to
>> consider some "adjusted" commit date?
>>
>> I.e. to be smart enough to spot that it should include a commit from
>> 2021 if all the preceding commits are from 2022, or some other similar
>> heuristic?
>
> No heuristics. Just a way to not stop at the first commit that doesn't
> match the --since criteria. Here is an example:
>
> Given:
>
> rm -rf .git file
> git init
> echo a > file
> git add file
> git commit -m init
> echo a >> file
> git add file
> GIT_COMMITTER_DATE="2021-01-01 0:00" git commit -m second
> echo a >> file
> git add file
> git commit -m third
>
> When I do:
>
> git log --pretty=oneline --since="2022-01-01"
>
> Then current I get:
>
> 91a24b6ccba6b1d26c3bd5bcea7ff86e6997b599 (HEAD -> master) third
>
> And I would like to have an opt-in way to instead get:
>
> 91a24b6ccba6b1d26c3bd5bcea7ff86e6997b599 (HEAD -> master) third
> e259a40784d3d70f3878105adac380c8e8a8ae52 init
>
> Arguing that both "init" and "third" was committed this year.
Indeed.
> The question is if there is a way to do this already (perhaps I missed
> something in the docs or didn't notice it while I briefly researched the
> commit walk code), or in case I want to do this, then would it make
> sense to have this feature in git or this is more a "run git rev-list
> and do your own filtering" case?
I think it might make sense to have it as feature, but hopefully we
could piggy-back on the date adjustment that the commit-graph needs to
do already, I'm not sure if we save that information anywhere though...
The assumption with --since was that this sort of timestamp drift
wouldn't be this bad, so mostly it works out. It could be made to work
like --grep, but then it needs to walk the whole history if no other
limit is provided.
So it'll be very slow if you just want --since=2.weeks.ago, but
accurate.
I think an alternate solution to this in the meantime is to use "git
replace" as a band-aid, I haven't tried, but you should be able to
replace the relevant commit with one that has adjusted dates.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-04-01 13:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-04-01 8:21 git log --since to not stop after first old commit? Miklos Vajna
2022-04-01 9:57 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-04-01 10:14 ` Miklos Vajna
2022-04-01 13:51 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason [this message]
2022-04-01 17:51 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-04-01 21:36 ` [PATCH] git-log: add a --since-as-filter option Miklos Vajna
2022-04-02 10:09 ` [PATCH v2] " Miklos Vajna
2022-04-07 15:43 ` git log --since to not stop after first old commit? Miklos Vajna
2022-04-08 2:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-04-08 18:19 ` Junio C Hamano
[not found] ` <CANgJU+Wr+tKNPfeh4dst-E_LSnoYYmN1easqmkFUA9spp-rpKQ@mail.gmail.com>
2022-04-11 6:37 ` Miklos Vajna
2022-04-11 9:18 ` demerphq
2022-04-11 16:58 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-04-22 18:48 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-04-22 20:01 ` [PATCH v6] log: "--since-as-filter" option is a non-terminating "--since" variant Miklos Vajna
2022-04-22 22:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-04-22 23:43 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-04-23 12:59 ` [PATCH v7] " Miklos Vajna
2022-04-08 21:01 ` [PATCH v3] git-log: add a --since=... --as-filter option Miklos Vajna
2022-04-12 8:47 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-04-15 20:39 ` [PATCH v4] " Miklos Vajna
2022-04-15 23:13 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-04-16 14:23 ` [PATCH v5] log: "--as-filter" option adjusts how "--since" cut-off works Miklos Vajna
2022-04-22 6:50 ` Miklos Vajna
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