From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Sixt Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] Submodule filtering for filter-branch Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2010 18:20:13 +0100 Message-ID: <201012311820.13863.j6t@kdbg.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: jeffrey.freeman@syncleus.com, git@vger.kernel.org To: Thomas Rast X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Dec 31 18:20:28 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 1PYieR-0001u8-3H for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Fri, 31 Dec 2010 18:20:27 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753807Ab0LaRUR (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Dec 2010 12:20:17 -0500 Received: from bsmtp2.bon.at ([213.33.87.16]:19433 "EHLO bsmtp.bon.at" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753701Ab0LaRUQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Dec 2010 12:20:16 -0500 Received: from dx.sixt.local (unknown [93.83.142.38]) by bsmtp.bon.at (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BC70130048; Fri, 31 Dec 2010 18:20:14 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by dx.sixt.local (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8E2919F69E; Fri, 31 Dec 2010 18:20:13 +0100 (CET) User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Freitag, 31. Dezember 2010, Thomas Rast wrote: > Jeffrey Phillips Freeman aka tty1 asked on IRC about a way to fix the > super-project after rewriting submodules. This quick series provides > some extra tricks in the filter-branch toolbox that can be plumbed > together to achieve this (see the last commit's message), and should > hopefully be general enough to be of other use too. I like the --dump-map and --load-map options. But I think that a --submodule-filter is not necessary; it is just a particular --index-filter, and IMO should be part of the documentation in the form of an example that illustrates how to use the new options. -- Hannes