Re: Converting from svn to git

["David Neu" <david@davidneu.com>]

That's great - thanks to everyone!

On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 11:32 AM, Michael J Gruber
<michaeljgruber+gmane@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> David Neu venit, vidit, dixit 10.08.2008 16:54:
>>
>> Thanks for the reply - this looks like what I'd need, but
>> I can't see how to keep the contents of the base dir and
>> lose the subdirs, e.g.
>>
>> $ git-filter-branch --subdirectory-filter . HEAD
>>
>> removes all subdirs and the contents of the base dir.
>>
>> So, I figure I'd remove each subdir, using
>>
>> $ git-filter-branch --tree-filter 'rm -rf subdir1/' HEAD
>>
>> but this complains if subdir1 contains subdirectories, it
>> says: Namespace refs/original/ not empty
>
> It complains because filter-branch stores the original refs in that
> namespace, and on the second filter-branch run it wants to do this again.
> You can avoid this by using the "-f" option to filter-branch, or by removing
> all subsirs in one go ("rm -rf subdir1 subdir2..."). Also, you might want to
> rewrite all refs ("--all"), not just HEAD.
>
> Michael
>
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