Re: finding deleted file names

Jeff King [off-list ref] wrote:

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.

Shawn, does this seem sane to you?

Yea, this is the only reasonable thing to do here.  Ack.

-- 
Shawn.