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
next prev parent 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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