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Re: git filter-branch not removing commits when it should in 2.7.0

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Jan 19, 2016, 21:37 UTC
Message-ID
<20160119213705.GA28656@sigill.intra.peff.net>
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On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 01:35:25PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> In other words, would the fix be a one-liner like this?
> [...]
> -		tree="$commit^{tree}"
> +		tree=$(git rev-parse "$commit^{tree}")
Yes, I was just writing up the commit message for it. :-/

It _is_ slower, though, because it introduces an extra rev-parse. When we could in fact be getting rid of one. Give me a moment to complete a few timing tests and post the results.

-Peff
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