On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 10:40:39AM -0800, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> But you can can get commit closest to given date by combining the time
> limiting with limiting number of commits, as described in "Commit
> limiting" in git-rev-list(1) and git-log(1) manpages.
>
> $ git log -n 1 --before=<date> <branch>
>
> which would return first commit older than <date>, starting from
> <branch>.
OK, thanks, I guess the --before part answers my question: so to get
revision "rev" back at date "YYYY-MM-DD" (always using first parents)
I'd do
git rev-list rev -n 1 --first-parent --before=YYYY-MM-DD
as in:
git checkout "`git rev-list rev -n 1 --first-parent --before=YYYY-MM-DD`"
It's a bit of a mouthful, but it does what I want (although I still
think a syntax such as rev~@{YYYY-MM-DD} or rev~{YYYY-MM-DD} or
whatever might prove useful: I imagine I'm not the first person to
wish for something of the sort).
Thanks,
--
David A. Madore
(david.madore@xxxxxx,
http://www.madore.org/~david/ )
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