Limiting Search Time

The tool will limit how far back it will search before giving up. By default, it will look back 50 commits. This can be customized, however. There are three ways to limit how far back is searched:

• commit [default=50]: The --commit-lookback option takes an argument that specifies how many commits to search before giving up.
• time: The --timeout-secs option takes an argument that specifies how many seconds to search before giving up. By default, there is no limit.
• specific commit: The --commit-limit option takes an git commit hash for an argument once that commit is found, searching will stop.

Only look at the most recent 100 commits:

git co-evg-base --commit-lookback 100

Limit search to 1 minute:

git co-evg-base --timeout-secs 60

Only look back until commit ‘abc123’ is found:

git co-evg-base --commit-limit abc123

Search until any of the above limits are hit:

git co-evg-base --commit-lookback 100 --timeout-secs 60 --commit-limit abc123