enhancement: specify start date or commit date in lieu of percent

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
run gource on git

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Intent would be to start at a given point in time or a specific commit

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
.40 arch linux

Please provide any additional information below.

I'd like to visualize the linux kernel development at a certain stage of 
development.  Right now I can just give an approximate fraction of time but 
it'd be nice to filter to a specific point in time and/or commit- whichever is 
easier to implement :)  The linux kernel is huge so a start percentage is 
really a hard thing to pin down.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by jrdn....@gmail.com on 3 Jun 2013 at 1:01

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Issue 200 has been merged into this issue.

Original comment by acaudw...@gmail.com on 25 Jun 2013 at 9:20

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I have just implemented a --start-date YYYY-MM-DD option if anyone wants to try 
it.

Cheers

Andrew

Original comment by acaudw...@gmail.com on 25 Jun 2013 at 9:22

• Changed state: Accepted
• Added labels: Type-Enhancement
• Removed labels: Type-Defect

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+1 for --start-date and --stop-date too!  Even better would be --start-commit 
and --stop-commit.

Original comment by n8g...@mellmo.com on 16 Oct 2013 at 6:56

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I've added --stop-date now too.

You can now also specify hour, minute and seconds using the ISO 'YYYY-MM-DD 
hh:mm:ss' format.

Not thoroughly tested yet, only tried it with git and svn so far.

Original comment by acaudw...@gmail.com on 17 Oct 2013 at 10:53

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I seccond that --start-commit and --stop-comit would be vastly perfered to a 
date specification.

Original comment by b...@perfectresolution.com on 27 Dec 2013 at 10:44

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Is their a build with this update, or would I have to compile from source?

Original comment by b...@perfectresolution.com on 27 Dec 2013 at 10:47

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From source currently.

Note you can run 'gource --git-log-command' (similar command for svn, etc) to 
see the command used by gource, and generate a log file with additional custom 
parameters yourself.

Original comment by acaudw...@gmail.com on 28 Dec 2013 at 9:09

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+1 for --start-date and --stop-date

Original comment by andyh...@gmail.com on 5 Jan 2014 at 1:46

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--start-date and --stop-date is much easier to handle if you just want to 
generate monthly reports. Thanks for this patch, we already use it on 
production :) (with git)

Original comment by neutri...@gmail.com on 6 Jan 2014 at 10:16

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--start-date and --stop-date are in the current release now.

Original comment by acaudw...@gmail.com on 14 Apr 2014 at 6:39

• Changed state: Done