question: date query

[Uğur Özyılmazel]

First of all, I really liked this tool. Thanks for it... Can you please give some more date query examples ? between dates for instance? I cross checked via git's:

git log --online --since='4 months ago' --date=relative

and compared to git sql... It's like maximum 10 results for each query ?

[Claudson Oliveira]

Hello @vigo

Each date value can be represented with pattern Y-m-d H:i:s, for example:

# commits since Dec 1st
select author, message, date from commits where date >= '2016-12-01 00:00:00'

# range: commits in november
select author, message, date from commits where date >= '2016-11-01 00:00:00' and date < '2016-12-01 00:00:00'

You can use the reserved word limit to define how many lines you can see.

select author, message, date from commits where date >= '2016-11-01 00:00:00' and date < '2016-12-01 00:00:00' limit  20

If you think that our documentation could be better, we could work together to improve that. Let me know if want that.

[Claudson Oliveira]

By the way...
There is no way yet to define relative dates, but it would be a nice feature like mysql date_add

[Uğur Özyılmazel]

Thanks for answering... I had tried without H:i:s information. Now I understand the reason... One last thing, I guess the default limit value is 10... If I query like this:

select message,date from commits

I get 10 results... I think I need to set limit every time ?... Would be great if I can set a kind of env var something like GITQL_DEFAULT_LIMIT=100 (just an idea) :)

[Claudson Oliveira]

@vigo I tried

select author, message, date from commits where date >= '2016-11-01' and date < '2016-12-01' limit 20

And it works.
If you have some query using date in Y-m-d format and it does not work please can you open a new issue? So we can work on that.

Would be great if I can set a kind of env var something like GITQL_DEFAULT_LIMIT=100

I prefer to follow explicit is better than implicit but your ideia is cool. Feel free if you want send a PR ;)

[Uğur Özyılmazel]

ok, it works but if I don't provide "limit XX" default resuts are always 10... Here is the repo I make my tests. SQL is:

select author, message, date from commits where date >= '2016-01-01' and date < '2016-12-01'

I get 10 results unless I set limit XXX...

[Claudson Oliveira]

Right @vigo, as this issue was about that question with dates, I'm closing it and created another about the limit feature