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From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu•org>
To: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: Consistency question
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 12:55:02 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wqi17949.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20140115111330.GH14335@sigill.intra.peff.net

Jeff King <peff@peff•net> writes:

> There are some parts of the code that will behave badly with clock skew.
> For example, "--since" will stop traversing when we hit a certain point.
> It requires a fixed number of "too old" commits before quitting, though,
> in an attempt to bypass small runs of skewed clocks.

That actually turns out to be a somewhat sore point for me: I use
something like

git shortlog -n --since 2013/12/01 --until 2014/01/01 master

for generating statistics on LilyPond when I am doing my monthly report
begging the community for money.

It turns out that the numbers of commits attributed to me tend to go
_down_ quite regularly in the time from starting the report to sending
it out.  Which might also cause me to overlook a particularly
selfpraiseworthy item.

Not sure how feasible it would be to arrive at a stable and
complementary set of --since/--until.

-- 
David Kastrup

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-01-15 11:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-15 10:37 Consistency question David Kastrup
2014-01-15 11:13 ` Jeff King
2014-01-15 11:40   ` David Kastrup
2014-01-15 12:44     ` Andreas Krey
2014-01-15 13:00       ` David Kastrup
2014-01-15 13:45         ` Andreas Krey
2014-01-15 11:55   ` David Kastrup [this message]
2014-01-18  1:22   ` Mike Hommey

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