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From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
To: Klas Lindberg <klas.lindberg@gmail.com>
Cc: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>,
	Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>,
	Steven Grimm <koreth@midwinter.com>,
	Git Users List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: How to remove a commit object?
Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:02:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48E4E27E.7030308@viscovery.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <33f4f4d70810020726g71c6f39eq16585269fb268322@mail.gmail.com>

Klas Lindberg schrieb:
> A solution to both problems seemed to be to use git-filter-branch to
> create a new repo by filtering out all the unwanted files. The
> astonishing result was that, for the subdirectory I tried it on, 90%
> or so of the commits on that subdirectory just disappeared. It didn't
> look right at all. Although I can't say for sure exactly what I did
> with filter-branch, I would appreciate some guidance for using it. It
> basically seemed to do exactly what I wanted (recreate the repo, minus
> some explicit stuff, with history intact otherwise), except the result
> looked crazy.

And your definition of 'crazy' is...?

I assume that you used --subdirectory-filter. This has issues that will be
fixed in 1.6.1. You need a current 'master' git (at least b805ef08).

-- Hannes

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-10-02 15:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-18 23:41 How to remove a commit object? Steven Grimm
2008-09-19  9:16 ` Michael J Gruber
2008-10-02 13:36   ` Klas Lindberg
2008-10-02 14:00     ` Michael J Gruber
2008-10-02 14:02     ` Jakub Narebski
2008-10-02 14:26       ` Klas Lindberg
2008-10-02 14:30         ` Michael J Gruber
2008-10-02 14:52           ` Klas Lindberg
2008-10-02 15:02         ` Johannes Sixt [this message]
2008-10-03 11:42           ` Klas Lindberg
2008-10-03 12:03             ` Johannes Sixt

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