From: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2010 02:23:59 GMT
Subject: Re: subdirectory-filter does not delete files before the directory came into existence?
Message-ID: <201012190323.59829.trast@student.ethz.ch>
In-Reply-To: <1292415733.11607.51.camel@hppc323.few.vu.nl>

Jan Wielemaker wrote:
> The reported problems also apply to the next module.  What appears to
> work is this:
> 
>   * Walk through the history, finding the commit where the directory
>   is created.
>   * use git tag -l --contains <commit that created dir> to get the 
>   tags we want to keep.
>   * get all tags, use comm and delete the tags not in the `contained'
>   set above.
> 
> Not very friendly and I'm (with Thomas) about the status of these
> findings.  I like to thank Thomas for giving me the right clue.

Now I finally remember where I knew this problem from:

  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/91708

(My memory really sucks.)

-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch