From: Jan Wielemaker Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 10:40:21 GMT Subject: Re: subdirectory-filter does not delete files before the directory came into existence? Message-ID: <1292409621.11607.41.camel@hppc323.few.vu.nl> In-Reply-To: <201012150003.30127.trast@student.ethz.ch> In addition to my previous reply: Looking at the result of the initial filter, if remove all unchanged refs I loose the history before 2008. Qgit however shows a broken history at the start of the directory in 2002. If I keep deleting the tag that is the head of older stuff I end up with what I hoped in the first place. This is of course a bit tedious :-( You can view the result at git://www.swi-prolog.org/home/pl/git/packages/odbc.git I'll split some more packages. Curious to what is going to happen ... Regards --- Jan On Wed, 2010-12-15 at 00:03 +0100, Thomas Rast wrote: > Jan Wielemaker wrote: > > I try to extract a directory. The result is fine, but there is a lot > > of history in the result from *before* the directory was added to the > > project. Why? How can I get rid of this? > [...] > > Now use e.g. qgit to look at the history. As from 03/07/2002, when > > the packages/odbc directory was created, all looks just fine. Before > > though ... > > That history is not connected to the filtered one. git-filter-branch > alerts you to it with messages like > > WARNING: Ref 'refs/tags/V5.0.4' is unchanged > WARNING: Ref 'refs/tags/V5.0.5' is unchanged > WARNING: Ref 'refs/tags/V5.0.6' is unchanged > WARNING: Ref 'refs/tags/V5.0.7' is unchanged > > I haven't made up my mind if this is a bug report or a feature > request, but in any case you can delete all of them and the problem > goes away. >