Re: [PATCH] git-filter-branch could be confused by similar names

From: Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>
Date: Dec 30, 2007, 18:40 UTC
Message-ID: <20071230184056.GZ13968@dpotapov.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0712301700580.14355@wbgn129.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 05:03:32PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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> On Sun, 30 Dec 2007, Dmitry Potapov wrote:
> 
> > How about this:
> > 
> > +			grep '^refs/\([^/]\+/\)\?'"$ref"'$')"
> 
> Maybe.  I wonder whether just adding a "$" (which I obviously forgot) 
> would not be enough...

Adding '$' will certainly make things much better, but you will still have the same problem if you want to filter "master", but you have "origin/master" in your repo.

Dmitry