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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-filter-branch: document --original option
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 00:04:52 +0100 (BST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0708310004130.28586@racer.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vy7fs7kmc.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Hi,

On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > +--original <namespace>::
> > +	Use this option to set the namespace where the original commits
> > +	will be stored. The default value is 'refs/original'.
> > +
> 
> The default seems to be "refs/original/".
> 
> Even worse.
> 
> I think if you say --force --original refs/head (notice the lack
> of "s" nor slash at the end), the code will get you in a *lot*
> of trouble.
> 
> Dscho, don't we want to do something like this?

Yes, I think so, too.  The --original option is probably the least tested 
option of filter-branch :-(

Ciao,
Dscho

      parent reply	other threads:[~2007-08-30 23:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-30 15:56 [PATCH] git-filter-branch: more detailed USAGE Giuseppe Bilotta
2007-08-30 16:20 ` Johannes Sixt
2007-08-30 17:11   ` Giuseppe Bilotta
2007-08-30 17:10 ` Giuseppe Bilotta
2007-08-30 17:10   ` [PATCH] git-filter-branch: document --original option Giuseppe Bilotta
2007-08-30 21:55     ` Junio C Hamano
2007-08-30 22:00       ` David Kastrup
2007-08-30 22:23         ` Junio C Hamano
2007-08-30 23:13           ` Junio C Hamano
2007-08-31  6:16             ` David Kastrup
2007-08-31  6:13           ` David Kastrup
2007-08-30 23:04       ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]

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