From: J. Bruce Fields Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2007 01:00:33 GMT Subject: Re: Trying to use git-filter-branch to compress history by removing large, obsolete binary files Message-ID: <20071008010033.GA25654@fieldses.org> In-Reply-To: On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 01:34:07AM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > It does what it should do. It is _your_ task to look at refs/original/* > if everything went alright. Then you just delete the checked refs. It seems odd to me, by the way, that filter-branch has its own home-grown backup mechanism. Lots of other commands can "lose" commits, but none of them keep an extra backup like this. And I find it tedious for quicker jobs which it might otherwise be useful for (e.g. rewrites of commits in my tree not yet in upstream), unless I wrap it in a script that cleans up after itself. --b.