From: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
To: "Michael O'Cleirigh" <michael.ocleirigh@rivulet.ca>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] Add new --index-filter example to git-filter-branch.txt
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 21:24:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTimPirVXdqwckoqEhU05iqvvpce-8g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1303927684-6513-1-git-send-email-michael.ocleirigh@rivulet.ca>
Heya,
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 20:08, Michael O'Cleirigh
<michael.ocleirigh@rivulet.ca> wrote:
> At work I patched git with the prevously sent --egrep-filter patch that allows
> an irregular history to be retained, like where code reorganization occured and
> you want to keep the history from the original locations.
>
> The comments I recieved at that time was that my case was an --index-filter
> variant.
>
> I've reworked it into an --index-filter using the $GIT_COMMIT variable, tested
> that it works, and have added it as an example to the git-filter-branch
> documentation.
Meta nit: for a 1 patch series we would usually put this kind of
introduction after the --- in the actual patch.
--
Cheers,
Sverre Rabbelier
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-27 19:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-27 18:08 [PATCH 0/1] Add new --index-filter example to git-filter-branch.txt Michael O'Cleirigh
2011-04-27 18:08 ` [PATCH 1/1] Documentation/git-filter-branch: add --index-filter example Michael O'Cleirigh
2011-04-27 20:32 ` Johannes Sixt
2011-04-27 19:24 ` Sverre Rabbelier [this message]
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