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From: bill lam <cbill.lam@gmail.com>
To: git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: meaning of HEAD in context of filter-branch
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2009 10:43:57 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091011024357.GA9021@debian.b2j> (raw)

I tried to process some files that changed between each commit using
the command

git filter-branch --tree-filter 'git diff --name-only HEAD^.. | foo

however it seems that HEAD is fixed to mean the HEAD of the current
tip before starting git-filter-branch, by trying like this

$ git rev-list -1 HEAD^
2bf95faed2d51c338ea6fa93e7bb6cc9c1bc759b

git filter-branch --tree-filter 'git rev-list -1 HEAD^ >>/tmp/sha' -- --all
$ cat /tmp/sha
2bf95faed2d51c338ea6fa93e7bb6cc9c1bc759b
2bf95faed2d51c338ea6fa93e7bb6cc9c1bc759b
2bf95faed2d51c338ea6fa93e7bb6cc9c1bc759b
2bf95faed2d51c338ea6fa93e7bb6cc9c1bc759b


how to get the HEAD during filter-branch or other workaround?

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             reply	other threads:[~2009-10-11  2:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-11  2:43 bill lam [this message]
2009-10-11  9:38 ` meaning of HEAD in context of filter-branch Andreas Schwab
2009-10-12 10:41   ` bill lam

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