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From: Pascal Obry <pascal@obry.net>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: git list <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Problem with git filter-branch
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 22:55:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <490387AF.8080308@obry.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0810252235040.22125@pacific.mpi-cbg.de.mpi-cbg.de>


Hi Johannes,

> It is a (maybe ill-conceived) feature.  When branches are rewritten, their 
> original versions are stored in the refs/original/ namespace.  You can 
> force overwriting with "-f".

Working fine indeed with -f option. What's strange is that it used to
work without the -f option. Would be nice to improve the error message
in this specific case.

Anyway, thanks a lot.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-10-25 20:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-25  9:33 Problem with git filter-branch Pascal Obry
2008-10-25 20:36 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-10-25 20:40   ` Mike Hommey
2008-10-25 20:55   ` Pascal Obry [this message]
2008-10-26  5:07   ` Jeff King

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