Re: finding deleted file names

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 09:31:55AM +0930, Geoff Russell wrote:

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}

This should issue a warning, but use the oldest reflog entry. However,
there is a slight problem with that. See below for details.

I think your patch is a sane thing to do.

Once reflog entries begin expiring, we won't have the null_sha1 on the
previous side of them, and after that we will keep returning the
oldest-known one, so nobody should be expecting to find out when a ref was
first created in this repository by checking with what timestamp that
syntax breaks in the existing interface.

Sorry for not being Shawn ;-)