On Wed, Mar 23 2022, Sebastian Schuberth wrote: > On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 1:33 PM Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason > <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> I think --since to "rev-list" combined with e.g. "shortlog" is what you >> want here, e.g. on git.git: >> >> $ git -P shortlog --since=2.weeks.ago -sn origin/master > > But that still interprets "2.weeks.ago" relative to today, right? So, > for a repo to which no one committed to in the last 2 weeks, it would > show nothing. But what I'd like to get is the number of committers > since 2 weeks before the latest commit. Any idea how to get that > easily? Ah, sorry. I managed to (mis)read your question. Perhaps there's a way to do that in one command, but I don't think so, but I may be wrong. But you *can* do by grabbing the epoch from the tip commit and doing some basic shell-math on it: git log --since=$(($(git log --oneline -1 --date=unix --pretty=format:%ad origin/master) - $((60*60*24*7*2)) )) origin/master It would be nice if we had some option to to do that, e.g.: git log --since=2.weeks.ago --date-now=February.2018 Or To get you things in late January 2018. Or even: git -c core.time="February.2018" log --since=2.weeks.ago To fool the entirety of git to use a given time() as current (but of course it would also need to "adjust back" commit dates for relative --since). I'm 99% sure we don't have that, especially from looking at some of the code just now. But in the meantime you can hack it as above.