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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: How do I specify a revision for "git blame" by date?
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 10:22:17 -0700
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Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:

> perryh@pluto.rain.com writes:
>
>> How do I get "git blame" to operate "as of" a particular date in
>> the past, without having to manually look up the corresponding
>> SHA1 using "git rev-list"?  For example, I can get a report as of
>> 2011-12-29 by doing something like:
>>
>>   $ git rev-list --all --date-order --format="%h %ai" .
>>   ...
>>   7c69106 2012-01-03 ...
>>   b4227af 2011-12-27 ...
>>   ...
>>
>>   $ git blame <file> b4227af
>
> You can use any rev-list option, so --until=2011-12-27 should work.

News to me.