Re: Bug: `git-filter-branch −−subdirectory−filter` fails on Darwin, others?

 ---- On Wed, 11 May 2016 07:08:02 -0700 Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote ---- 
 > On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 06:47:20AM -0700, Geoff Nixon wrote: 
 >  
 > >    the last line before it fails appears to be 
 > >     `git rev-parse --no-flags --revs-only --symbolic-full-name 
 > >     --default HEAD 
 \210\222 \210\222subdirectory \210\222filter` 
 > >     (including the octal sequences and bad-unicode character, those 
 > >     are not email artifacts) 
 >  
 > Are you sure that you are invoking filter-branch with regular ascii 
 > dashes, and not Unicode "minus-sign" (U+2212)? 
 >  
 > I seem to recall this coming up once before related to OS X, but I can't 
 > seem to find it in the archive. And I don't recall if it was related to 
 > the terminal, a keyboard setting, or something else. 

That was it. I'm an idiot.

I sometimes use `man -t` to generate postscript for lengthy man pages so I can "page through" outside my terminal. It appears that for reasons unknown this converts all "-"s to "−"s. I must have copy-pasted the example. Then I kept using my shell history completion, never typing it out again.

Sorry for wasting your time, thanks for helping me figure this out.

-Geoff

 >  
 > -Peff 
 >