From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mike Hommey Subject: Re: git-filter-branch Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 11:30:51 +0200 Organization: glandium.org Message-ID: <20070809093051.GA21458@glandium.org> References: <20070809063453.GA12602@glandium.org> <20070809091550.GB20321@glandium.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Git Mailing List To: Johannes Schindelin X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Aug 09 11:32:19 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IJ4NO-0006an-3P for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 09 Aug 2007 11:32:18 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759289AbXHIJbo (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Aug 2007 05:31:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1765521AbXHIJbo (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Aug 2007 05:31:44 -0400 Received: from vawad.err.no ([85.19.200.177]:59529 "EHLO vawad.err.no" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1765789AbXHIJbm (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Aug 2007 05:31:42 -0400 Received: from aputeaux-153-1-54-147.w82-124.abo.wanadoo.fr ([82.124.176.147] helo=vaio.glandium.org) by vawad.err.no with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1IJ4Mn-0000vd-P0; Thu, 09 Aug 2007 11:31:43 +0200 Received: from mh by vaio.glandium.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1IJ4Lz-0005cK-Fr; Thu, 09 Aug 2007 11:30:51 +0200 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-GPG-Fingerprint: A479 A824 265C B2A5 FC54 8D1E DE4B DA2C 54FD 2A58 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: mh@glandium.org X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on vaio.glandium.org); SAEximRunCond expanded to false X-Spam-Status: (score 0.0): Status=No hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none version=3.1.4 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 10:19:20AM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > In the description in the manpage: > > Lets you rewrite git revision history by creating a new branch from > > your current branch, applying custom filters on each revision. > > (...) > > The command takes the new branch name as a mandatory argument and the > > filters as optional arguments > > > > And in example: > > Now, you will get the rewritten history saved in the branch newbranch > > (your current branch is left untouched). > > > > I must say this is a feature that would actually be nice to have... > > To compare with the old one? Use reflogs: > > git filter-branch --some-option master > git diff master@{1}..master To have, for example, a branch tracking an upstream (svn or whatever) repository and have a branch based on it, only differing in the fact that some directories get removed. To be more specific, I'm tracking webkit's svn repository, and want to have a branch which would be a base for making source tarballs for debian, excluding a lot of cruft (such as LayoutTests which are *huge*, or the website that also lives in the same svn trunk). As files are added frequently in these directories, rebase or merge would not be enough, and I'd like to be able to do this with a bare repository, which rebase and merge don't allow me to... So if you have a better idea than git-filter-branch for that, I'm open to suggestions ;) Cheers, Mike