From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pascal Obry Subject: Re: Problem with git filter-branch Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 22:55:11 +0200 Organization: Home - http://www.obry.net Message-ID: <490387AF.8080308@obry.net> References: <4902E7D8.6050401@obry.net> Reply-To: pascal@obry.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git list To: Johannes Schindelin X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Oct 25 22:56:47 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KtqBh-0001Dd-QM for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sat, 25 Oct 2008 22:56:46 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751085AbYJYUzW (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Oct 2008 16:55:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751087AbYJYUzV (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Oct 2008 16:55:21 -0400 Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.156]:22842 "EHLO fg-out-1718.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751040AbYJYUzV (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Oct 2008 16:55:21 -0400 Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 19so1387190fgg.17 for ; Sat, 25 Oct 2008 13:55:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.86.59.2 with SMTP id h2mr1581262fga.73.1224968119390; Sat, 25 Oct 2008 13:55:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.0.100? (AVelizy-154-1-40-132.w82-124.abo.wanadoo.fr [82.124.144.132]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 12sm3122489fgg.0.2008.10.25.13.55.16 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 25 Oct 2008 13:55:17 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr-FR; rv:1.8.1.17) Gecko/20080914 Thunderbird/2.0.0.17 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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. -- --|------------------------------------------------------ --| Pascal Obry Team-Ada Member --| 45, rue Gabriel Peri - 78114 Magny Les Hameaux FRANCE --|------------------------------------------------------ --| http://www.obry.net --| "The best way to travel is by means of imagination" --| --| gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-key C1082595