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: Sun, 19 Dec 2010 03:23:59 +0100 Message-ID: <201012190323.59829.trast@student.ethz.ch> References: <1292365295.6666.22.camel@ct> <201012150003.30127.trast@student.ethz.ch> <1292415733.11607.51.camel@hppc323.few.vu.nl> 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 Sun Dec 19 03:24:11 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 1PU8wT-0005sy-8T for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Dec 2010 03:24:09 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932264Ab0LSCYD (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Dec 2010 21:24:03 -0500 Received: from edge10.ethz.ch ([82.130.75.186]:16058 "EHLO edge10.ethz.ch" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932247Ab0LSCYC (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Dec 2010 21:24:02 -0500 Received: from CAS21.d.ethz.ch (172.31.51.111) by edge10.ethz.ch (82.130.75.186) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.1.218.12; Sun, 19 Dec 2010 03:24:00 +0100 Received: from pctrast.inf.ethz.ch (217.162.250.31) by CAS21.d.ethz.ch (172.31.51.111) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.1.218.12; Sun, 19 Dec 2010 03:24:00 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.37-rc5-desktop; KDE/4.5.3; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <1292415733.11607.51.camel@hppc323.few.vu.nl> X-Originating-IP: [217.162.250.31] Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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 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