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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: Jan Wielemaker <wielemak@science.uva.nl>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git filter-branch --subdirectory-filter error
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 12:20:05 +0100 (BST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710221218150.25221@racer.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200710221227.13279.wielemak@science.uva.nl>

Hi,

On Mon, 22 Oct 2007, Jan Wielemaker wrote:

> Finished a big re-shuffle of a big project, while other developers 
> continued. Worked really well. Thanks guys! But now I have two top 
> directories and I want to create two new repositories, each containing 
> one of these directories (because the one holds copyrighted data and we 
> want the other to become public software). So, I happily run
> 
> 	$ git filter-branch --subdirectory-filter RDF HEAD
> 
> Where RDF is an existing directory.  I get:
> 
> Rewrite 95807fe01c39d3092e3ac3a98061711323154d77 (1/12)fatal: Not a valid 
> object name 95807fe01c39d3092e3ac3a98061711323154d77:RDF
> Could not initialize the index

I guess that 95807fe01 is the parent of a commit adding the RDF/ 
directory.

The subdirectory filter does not look kindly upon a history where some 
commits lack the subdirectory in question.  However, this should work:

	git filter-branch --subdirectory--filter RDF 95807fe01..HEAD

Hth,
Dscho

  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-22 11:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-22 10:27 git filter-branch --subdirectory-filter error Jan Wielemaker
2007-10-22 11:20 ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]
2007-10-22 11:37   ` Jan Wielemaker
2007-10-22 13:44     ` Johannes Schindelin

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