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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: Sun, 19 Dec 2010 03:23:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201012190323.59829.trast@student.ethz.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1292415733.11607.51.camel@hppc323.few.vu.nl>

Jan Wielemaker wrote:
> The reported problems also apply to the next module.  What appears to
> work is this:
> 
>   * Walk through the history, finding the commit where the directory
>   is created.
>   * use git tag -l --contains <commit that created dir> to get the 
>   tags we want to keep.
>   * get all tags, use comm and delete the tags not in the `contained'
>   set above.
> 
> Not very friendly and I'm (with Thomas) about the status of these
> findings.  I like to thank Thomas for giving me the right clue.

Now I finally remember where I knew this problem from:

  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/91708

(My memory really sucks.)

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

  reply	other threads:[~2010-12-19  2:24 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
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 [this message]
2010-12-19  9:34       ` Jan Wielemaker
2010-12-19 22:51         ` Thomas Rast

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