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Re: Truncating and cleaning a imported git repositary to make it more usable

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Mar 28, 2008, 18:08 UTC
Message-ID
<20080328180848.GA8299@coredump.intra.peff.net>
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<b2cdc9f30803280903w4a6e3a6l9e33fd188af9995a@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 04:03:18PM +0000, Alex Bennee wrote:
> >  ajb@pitcairn:/export/git/fresh.git$ git-filter-branch --tree-filter
> >  'rm -rf big_dira big_dirb' dev-branch
> >  warning: refname 'dev-branch' is ambiguous.
> >  Which ref do you want to rewrite?

You have two refs called dev-branch. Probably both a tag and a branch (i.e., refs/heads/dev-branch and refs/tags/dev-branch). You can disambiguate by saying "heads/dev-branch").

> Ignore me. Not sure why but:
> 
> git-checkout dev-branch
> git-filter-branch --tree-filter  'rm -rf big_dira big_dirb' HEAD

git-checkout prefers branches to tags[1], so there is no ambiguity. It puts the full refname (refs/heads/dev-branch) into your HEAD, so there is no ambiguity when saying "HEAD".

[1] Actually, the upcoming builtin-checkout no longer behaves this way, and will complain about the ambiguity.

-Peff
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Message 12 of 14 in “Truncating and cleaning a imported git repositary to make it more usable”
  1. Alex BenneeMar 28, 2008
  2. Avery PennarunMar 28, 2008
  3. Alex BenneeMar 28, 2008
  4. Alex BenneeMar 28, 2008
  5. Alex BenneeMar 28, 2008
  6. Johannes SixtMar 28, 2008
  7. Documentation: Another example for git-filter-branchAlex Bennee, Mar 28, 2008
  8. Mike HommeyMar 28, 2008
  9. Alex BenneeMar 29, 2008
  10. Jakub NarebskiMar 29, 2008
  11. Johannes SixtMar 31, 2008
  12. Jeff KingMar 28, 2008
  13. Jeff KingMar 28, 2008
  14. Michael HaggertyMar 29, 2008

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