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From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
To: Ivo Anjo <knuckles@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Bug in git-filter-branch example
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:57:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B66CFB9.2060603@viscovery.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <557ea2711002010348m57aa31fesd1047cbe3f01cb0b@mail.gmail.com>

Ivo Anjo schrieb:
> I've been working on importing my svn repo into git, and while moving
> some things around using git-filter-branch I ran into a bug in the
> example provided on the manpage:

Thanks for the report, but: Examples are just that: examples. IMO, it is
OK that there are implicit assumptions (such as that only "common" file
names are used in the repo).

Making the example universally applicable would greatly obfuscate the
important messages.

> I ended up using git filter-branch to remove the offending file ("if
> all you have is a hammer..."), and re-adding it after the move.

It seems that the example has met its objective: It showed you how to use
the hammer, and with your creativity mixed in, it enabled you to use the
hammer in new ways.

-- Hannes

      parent reply	other threads:[~2010-02-01 12:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-01 11:48 Bug in git-filter-branch example Ivo Anjo
2010-02-01 12:43 ` Jeff King
2010-02-01 12:57 ` Johannes Sixt [this message]

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