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Re: [RFH] filter-branch: ancestor detection weirdness

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Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Date
Aug 9, 2008, 09:35 UTC
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Thomas Rast wrote:
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> Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > 
> > Perhaps --full-history is needed to the rev-list call (and the recent
> 
> But --full-history cannot solve this problem; it would entirely defeat
> the point of --subdirectory-filter.  (I haven't looked into what
> --simplify-merges does yet.)

Actually, on this point I stand corrected, in some tests it has a good effect. I'll look into it.

- Thomas
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Message 21 of 35 in “git filter-branch --subdirectory-filter, still a mistery”
  1. Jan WielemakerAug 6, 2008
  2. Jan WielemakerAug 7, 2008
  3. Thomas RastAug 7, 2008
  4. Jan WielemakerAug 7, 2008
  5. Thomas RastAug 7, 2008
  6. filter-branch: be more helpful when an annotated tag changesThomas Rast, Aug 7, 2008
  7. filter-branch: add option --delete-unchangedThomas Rast, Aug 8, 2008
  8. Johannes SchindelinAug 9, 2008
  9. Jan WielemakerAug 11, 2008
  10. Felipe ContrerasSep 14, 2008
  11. [RFH] filter-branch: ancestor detection weirdnessThomas Rast, Aug 7, 2008
  12. Johannes SchindelinAug 8, 2008
  13. Thomas RastAug 8, 2008
  14. filter-branch: fix ancestor discovery for --subdirectory-filterThomas Rast, Aug 8, 2008
  15. Johannes SchindelinAug 8, 2008
  16. Thomas RastAug 8, 2008
  17. filter-branch: fix ref rewriting with --subdirectory-filterThomas Rast, Aug 8, 2008
  18. Johannes SchindelinAug 9, 2008
  19. Junio C HamanoAug 9, 2008
  20. Thomas RastAug 9, 2008
  21. Thomas RastAug 9, 2008
  22. filter-branch: use --simplify-mergesThomas Rast, Aug 10, 2008
  23. Junio C HamanoAug 12, 2008
  24. Junio C HamanoAug 12, 2008
  25. Thomas RastAug 12, 2008
  26. Junio C HamanoAug 12, 2008
  27. Petr BaudisAug 12, 2008
  28. Junio C HamanoAug 12, 2008
  29. Thomas RastAug 9, 2008
  30. Junio C HamanoAug 12, 2008
  31. Thomas RastAug 12, 2008
  32. Jan WielemakerAug 8, 2008
  33. Jan WielemakerAug 8, 2008
  34. Documentation: filter-branch: document how to filter all refsThomas Rast, Aug 7, 2008
  35. Documentation: filter-branch: document how to filter all refsThomas Rast, Aug 7, 2008

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