From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "David Neu" Subject: Re: Converting from svn to git Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2008 11:48:03 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20080810132409.GE18960@genesis.frugalware.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: "Michael J Gruber" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Aug 10 17:49:12 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KSDAN-0005x3-5g for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sun, 10 Aug 2008 17:49:11 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754085AbYHJPsH (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Aug 2008 11:48:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753584AbYHJPsG (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Aug 2008 11:48:06 -0400 Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com ([66.249.82.226]:52016 "EHLO wx-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753109AbYHJPsE (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Aug 2008 11:48:04 -0400 Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id h29so999574wxd.4 for ; Sun, 10 Aug 2008 08:48:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.70.75.20 with SMTP id x20mr7477908wxa.29.1218383283150; Sun, 10 Aug 2008 08:48:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.70.53.6 with HTTP; Sun, 10 Aug 2008 08:48:03 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: That's great - thanks to everyone! On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 11:32 AM, Michael J Gruber 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 > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >