Re: exporting the last N days of a repository

On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 9:54 PM, Geoff Russell
[off-list ref] wrote:

Thanks Bob but when I ran your version (using master@{15} instead of
--since =...) it
effectively dropped the recent history, not the old history. Imagine a sequence
of 30 commits, no branches.  I want to keep, for example, 15 through
30 and dump 1
to 15.  So I need to have the working directory as at commit 15 and
then all the changes
to bring it up to 30.

      ... 11--12--13--14--15 ... 28--29--30

      ... Dump 1 to 15           keep 15 to 30.

Your script kept 1 to 15 and dumped the rest.

I guess that's because you're using reflog syntax and pulling up a
commit that isn't on the current branch, due to rebasing, resetting,
or any such activity.  Using the reflog syntax, for the few commits I
tried, produced the desired result.

I'm not sure why you'd use reflogs, however, as I believe the
--max-age or --since parameters to rev-list seem to be more in line
with your request.  Actually, I'd be surprised if you couldn't
identify the one commit that you wanted to use and use it directly;
the rev-list was just to show an example.

Thank you,

bob