From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sam Vilain Subject: Suggested command in git-filter-branch(1) Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2010 20:31:04 +1200 Message-ID: <1277022664.3728.1.camel@denix> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Jun 20 10:31:17 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OQFvw-0001Jh-Sp for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Jun 2010 10:31:17 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755704Ab0FTIbM (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Jun 2010 04:31:12 -0400 Received: from watts.utsl.gen.nz ([202.78.240.73]:42246 "EHLO mail.utsl.gen.nz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755072Ab0FTIbJ (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Jun 2010 04:31:09 -0400 Received: by mail.utsl.gen.nz (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 8B92713E4A5; Sun, 20 Jun 2010 20:31:08 +1200 (NZST) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on mail.musashi.utsl.gen.nz X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.2 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00, FH_DATE_PAST_20XX autolearn=no version=3.2.5 Received: from [10.22.33.150] (cat11g.catalyst.net.nz [202.78.240.10]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.utsl.gen.nz (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 72D9A21C34F for ; Sun, 20 Jun 2010 20:31:04 +1200 (NZST) X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.1 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: +* Remove the original refs backed up by git-filter-branch: say `git + for-each-ref \--format="%(refname)" refs/original/ | xargs -n 1 git + update-ref -d`. This is sick. I would normally just tell people to use 'rm -rf .git/refs/original', if for some bizarre reason gc has packed the .refs/original refs then I might do something like the above or edit .git/packed-refs How about 'git update-ref -dr refs/original' (and making that work) ? Sam