From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Rast Subject: Re: subdirectory-filter does not delete files before the directory came into existence? Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 00:03:29 +0100 Message-ID: <201012150003.30127.trast@student.ethz.ch> References: <1292365295.6666.22.camel@ct> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: To: Jan Wielemaker X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Dec 15 00:03:38 2010 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 1PSduD-0007k7-EZ for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Dec 2010 00:03:37 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759035Ab0LNXDc (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Dec 2010 18:03:32 -0500 Received: from edge20.ethz.ch ([82.130.99.26]:11034 "EHLO edge20.ethz.ch" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756177Ab0LNXDb (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Dec 2010 18:03:31 -0500 Received: from CAS12.d.ethz.ch (172.31.38.212) by edge20.ethz.ch (82.130.99.26) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.1.218.12; Wed, 15 Dec 2010 00:03:24 +0100 Received: from pctrast.inf.ethz.ch (84.74.105.24) by CAS12.d.ethz.ch (172.31.38.212) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.1.218.12; Wed, 15 Dec 2010 00:03:30 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.37-rc5-16-desktop; KDE/4.5.3; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <1292365295.6666.22.camel@ct> X-Originating-IP: [84.74.105.24] Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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