Re: Repo with only one file

[Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>]

Am 8/9/2013 8:33, schrieb shawn wilson:
> On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 2:25 AM, Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net> wrote:
>> Am 8/8/2013 23:11, schrieb Phil Hord:
>>> On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 5:07 PM, shawn wilson <ag4ve.us@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 6:43 AM, Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net> wrote:
>>>>> Am 8/7/2013 8:24, schrieb shawn wilson:> ... create a repo for one of
>>>>>> these scripts and I'd like to keep the commit history.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Ok, so:
>>>>>> % find -type f ! -iname "webban.pl" | while read f; do git
>>>>>> filter-branch -f --index-filter "git rm --cached --ignore-unmatch $f"
>>>>>> HEAD ; done
>>>>>>
> 
>> I'm not sure. On second thought, my suggested command is not sufficient.
>> It does remove the empty commits, but it does not remove the other files.
>> So, Shawn's original filter-branch invocations are still needed.
>>
> 
> Yeah, I have tried this and haven't gotten any closer. I can either
> remove all of the history or that one commit that has nothing to do
> with my file is there. This is also reproducable in a new repo.
> 
> Is this a bug with filter-branch or git? This doesn't seem like a
> feature (or how things should act).

Let's check: After running your command above to remove other files, does
the command

   git filter-branch -f HEAD webban.pl

remove the empty commit (if necessary, replace HEAD by the branch name
that you are interested in)?

-- Hannes