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[PATCHv4 1/2] filter-branch: Fix to allow replacing submodules with another content

From
Michal Sojka <sojkam1@fel.cvut.cz>
Date
Jan 28, 2010, 09:08 UTC
Message-ID
<1264669727-9977-1-git-send-email-sojkam1@fel.cvut.cz>
In-Reply-To
<201001281002.03232.sojkam1@fel.cvut.cz>

When git filter-branch is used to replace a submodule with another content, it always fails on the first commit. Consider a repository with submod directory containing a submodule. If I want to remove the submodule and replace it with a file, the following command fails.

git filter-branch --tree-filter 'rm -rf submod &&
				 git rm -q submod &&
				 mkdir submod &&
				 touch submod/file'

The error message is: error: submod: is a directory - add files inside instead

The reason is that git diff-index, which generates the first part of the list of files updated by the tree filter, emits also the removed submodule even if it was replaced by a real directory.

Adding --ignored-submodules solves the problem for me and tests in t7003-filter-branch.sh pass correctly.

Signed-off-by: Michal Sojka <sojkam1@fel.cvut.cz>
---
 git-filter-branch.sh |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/git-filter-branch.sh b/git-filter-branch.sh
index 195b5ef..7c4ad7d 100755
--- a/git-filter-branch.sh
+++ b/git-filter-branch.sh
@@ -331,7 +331,7 @@ while read commit parents; do
 			die "tree filter failed: $filter_tree"
 
 		(
-			git diff-index -r --name-only $commit &&
+			git diff-index -r --name-only --ignore-submodules $commit &&
 			git ls-files --others
 		) > "$tempdir"/tree-state || exit
 		git update-index --add --replace --remove --stdin \
-- 
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  1. Michal SojkaJan 25, 2010
  2. 1/2 filter-branch: Fix to allow replacing submodules with another contentMichal Sojka, Jan 25, 2010
  3. 2/2 filter-branch: Add tests for submodulesMichal Sojka, Jan 25, 2010
  4. Michal SojkaJan 27, 2010
  5. Johannes SixtJan 27, 2010
  6. Michal SojkaJan 27, 2010
  7. [PATCHv3] filter-branch: Add tests for submodulesMichal Sojka, Jan 27, 2010
  8. Junio C HamanoJan 28, 2010
  9. Michal SojkaJan 28, 2010
  10. 1/2 filter-branch: Fix to allow replacing submodules with another contentMichal Sojka, Jan 28, 2010
  11. 2/2 filter-branch: Add tests for submodules in tree-filterMichal Sojka, Jan 28, 2010
  12. Junio C HamanoJan 28, 2010
  13. Michal SojkaJan 29, 2010
  14. 1/2 filter-branch: Fix to allow replacing submodules with another contentMichal Sojka, Jan 29, 2010
  15. 2/2 filter-branch: Add tests for submodules in tree-filterMichal Sojka, Jan 29, 2010

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