From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2012 01:00:19 GMT
Subject: Re: filter-branch vs. <rev-list options>
Message-ID: <20120302010019.GD21835@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <4F50089B.1090202@cisco.com>

On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 06:39:07PM -0500, Phil Hord wrote:

> git-filter-branch seems to be parsing its own switches and not
> recognizing when they run out and the rest are "rev-list" options. 
> 
> Is there a way to force this break, or should I just expect to have to
> rewrite the logic so that there's always a non-switch argument at the
> start of the rev-list section?  Or am I just doing this wrong?
> 
> fwiw - I'm actually wanting to do this in a script:
>     git filter-branch --msg-filter cat --not --remotes --not "$@"

Did you try "--":

  git filter-branch --msg-filter cat -- --not --remotes --not "$@"

?