[LRUG] Weird git problem

[Andrew Stewart]

Hello El Rug,

This is a git question rather than a Ruby one, but since the git repo holds Ruby code I thought it would be ok ;)

Sometime in the last few hours git started misbehaving for me across all repos.  For example:

$ git log                       # works
$ git log -3                    # nothing shown; exit code 0
$ git log --since="1 week ago"  # nothing shown; exit code 0
$ git show HEAD                 # works
$ git show HEAD~3               # nothing shown; exit code 0

I'm on git v1.8.2.3 installed via Homebrew on OS X 10.8.3.

Presumably something changed on my system in the last few hours but I can't think what.  I also can't think how to go about debugging this.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance,

Andy Stewart