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From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Subject: Re: Trying to use git-filter-branch to compress history by
	removing large, obsolete binary files
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On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 01:34:07AM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> It does what it should do.  It is _your_ task to look at refs/original/* 
> if everything went alright.  Then you just delete the checked refs.

It seems odd to me, by the way, that filter-branch has its own
home-grown backup mechanism.  Lots of other commands can "lose" commits,
but none of them keep an extra backup like this.

And I find it tedious for quicker jobs which it might otherwise be
useful for (e.g. rewrites of commits in my tree not yet in upstream),
unless I wrap it in a script that cleans up after itself.

--b.