Re: finding deleted file names

On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 10:42 AM, Mikael Magnusson [off-list ref] wrote:

2008/7/3 Geoff Russell [off-list ref]:

quoted

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}

Is there something that says "since repository creation", ie., go back as far
as possible, but no further? Is there a symbolic name for the initial commit?

There's no symbolic name for it, since there might not be only one initial
commit. git.git for example has at least three root commits. You will
probably get what you want with $(git rev-list HEAD|tail -1). If your
history is very large, $(git rev-list --reverse HEAD|head -1) is slightly
faster, but usually not enough to offset typing --reverse :).

Thanks for this, but I'm a little confused.

If I do a "git init", there must be a first commit after this? Isn't
this the first commit, how
can there be more than one first commit?

Cheers,
Geoff

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