Re: [BUG] git shortlog: need a range!

Hi,

On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:

I just got this:

        $ git shortlog --since=Oct.20 --until=Nov.20 master
        fatal: Need a range!

Why isn't this a range?

It really is not. Think about this scenario:

A - B - C
  \   /
    D

where both B and D were done after Oct.20, but not A. Then you do not have 
a range, i.e. you cannot represent the same in the form X..Y.

However, this only shows that my reasoning in shortlog was wrong. It was 
meant to prevent accidentally traversing the _whole_ history (which does 
take some time), but maybe even this is something people want to do?

Therefore: Ack on René's patch.

Ciao,
Dscho