Re: [PATCH] rev-list: make --max- and --min-age a bit more usable.
From: Junio C Hamano <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:42:10
Subsystem:
documentation, the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds
Possibly related (same subject, not in this thread)
- 2016-06-15 · [PATCH] rev-list: make --max- and --min-age a bit more usable. · Junio C Hamano <hidden>
- 2016-06-15 · Re: [PATCH] rev-list: make --max- and --min-age a bit more usable. · Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Linus Torvalds [off-list ref] writes:
All the magic is in "git-rev-parse". Try it.
Ahhhh. I missed that. Thanks. -- >8 -- cut here -- >8 -- Document --since and --until options to rev-parse. The usability magic were hidden in the source code without being documented, and even the maintainer did not know about them ;-). Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <redacted> ---
diff --git a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
index 099db29..8b8068c 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt@@ -72,6 +72,14 @@ OPTIONS path of the current directory relative to the top-level directory. +--since=datestring, --after=datestring:: + Parses the date string, and outputs corresponding + --max-age= parameter for git-rev-list command. + +--until=datestring, --before=datestring:: + Parses the date string, and outputs corresponding + --min-age= parameter for git-rev-list command. + <args>...:: Flags and parameters to be parsed.