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From: "Alex Bennee" <kernel-hacker@bennee.com>
To: "Avery Pennarun" <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Truncating and cleaning a imported git repositary to make it more usable
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:03:18 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b2cdc9f30803280903w4a6e3a6l9e33fd188af9995a@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b2cdc9f30803280852y4f160bb2tda1e688ddf7213e7@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 3:52 PM, Alex Bennee <kernel-hacker@bennee.com> wrote:

>  ajb@pitcairn:/export/git/fresh.git$ git-filter-branch --tree-filter
>  'rm -rf big_dira big_dirb' dev-branch
>  warning: refname 'dev-branch' is ambiguous.
>  Which ref do you want to rewrite?

Ignore me. Not sure why but:

git-checkout dev-branch
git-filter-branch --tree-filter  'rm -rf big_dira big_dirb' HEAD

works


-- 
Alex, homepage: http://www.bennee.com/~alex/

  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-28 16:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-28 12:35 Truncating and cleaning a imported git repositary to make it more usable Alex Bennee
2008-03-28 12:50 ` Avery Pennarun
2008-03-28 13:08   ` Alex Bennee
2008-03-28 15:52   ` Alex Bennee
2008-03-28 16:03     ` Alex Bennee [this message]
2008-03-28 16:43       ` Johannes Sixt
2008-03-28 18:07         ` [PATCH] Documentation: Another example for git-filter-branch Alex Bennee
2008-03-28 20:44         ` Truncating and cleaning a imported git repositary to make it more usable Mike Hommey
2008-03-29 13:47         ` Alex Bennee
2008-03-29 14:30           ` Jakub Narebski
2008-03-31  6:17           ` Johannes Sixt
2008-03-28 18:08       ` Jeff King
2008-03-28 18:19         ` Jeff King
2008-03-29 17:51 ` Michael Haggerty

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