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
prev 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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