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From: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
To: Jan Wielemaker <J.Wielemaker@cs.vu.nl>
Cc: <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: subdirectory-filter does not delete files before the directory came into existence?
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 00:03:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201012150003.30127.trast@student.ethz.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1292365295.6666.22.camel@ct>

Jan Wielemaker wrote:
> I try to extract a directory.  The result is fine, but there is a lot
> of history in the result from *before* the directory was added to the
> project.  Why?  How can I get rid of this?
[...]
> Now use e.g. qgit to look at the history.  As from 03/07/2002, when
> the packages/odbc directory was created, all looks just fine.  Before
> though ...

That history is not connected to the filtered one.  git-filter-branch
alerts you to it with messages like

  WARNING: Ref 'refs/tags/V5.0.4' is unchanged
  WARNING: Ref 'refs/tags/V5.0.5' is unchanged
  WARNING: Ref 'refs/tags/V5.0.6' is unchanged
  WARNING: Ref 'refs/tags/V5.0.7' is unchanged

I haven't made up my mind if this is a bug report or a feature
request, but in any case you can delete all of them and the problem
goes away.

-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch

  reply	other threads:[~2010-12-14 23:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-14 22:21 subdirectory-filter does not delete files before the directory came into existence? Jan Wielemaker
2010-12-14 23:03 ` Thomas Rast [this message]
2010-12-15  9:50   ` Jan Wielemaker
2010-12-15 10:40   ` Jan Wielemaker
2010-12-15 12:22   ` Jan Wielemaker
2010-12-19  2:23     ` Thomas Rast
2010-12-19  9:34       ` Jan Wielemaker
2010-12-19 22:51         ` Thomas Rast

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