From: Martin Erik Werner <martinerikwerner@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Bug in filter-branch -d option, new files are dumped into parent
Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2013 14:32:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1364905941.19800.24.camel@mas> (raw)
Hi,
I think I have stumbled on a bug in the -d option of git filter-branch.
It seems like in the final stage of filter-branch, regardless of where
-d is set, it will make updates to the "working directory" as being the
parent of the -d directory, and the actual working directory is left as
it were before the filtering.
For example if using -d /tmp/git-rewrite, the new checkout files are
dumped into /tmp.
A simple test scenario:
###
mkdir test
cd test
git init
echo foo >foo
git add foo
git commit -m"foo"
echo bar >bar
git add bar
git commit -m"bar"
git checkout -b rewrite
git filter-branch -d /tmp/git-rewrite --tree-filter 'echo baz >baz' --
rewrite
# git status
# shows 'baz' as unstaged-deleted in the working directory
#
# ls /tmp/
# shows the 'baz' file created in the root, above git-rewrite
#
# git log --stat --oneline
# does show expected result though
#
# if you run it again you'll get an error because of the /tmp/baz file
git reset --hard master
git filter-branch -f -d /tmp/git-rewrite --tree-filter 'echo baz >baz'
-- rewrite
# Rewrite afac18542ac3d432b647866f5ac6918b81b3bb78 (2/2)
# Ref 'refs/heads/rewrite' was rewritten
# error: Untracked working tree file 'baz' would be overwritten by
merge.
#
# At this point, 'baz' is instead staged-deleted in the working
directory
###
--
Martin Erik Werner <martinerikwerner@gmail.com>
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2013-04-02 12:32 Martin Erik Werner [this message]
2013-04-02 14:22 ` [PATCH] filter-branch: return to original dir after filtering Jeff King
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