Re: fatal: bad revision 'git rm -r --ignore-unmatch -- folder'

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Jan 17, 2017, 15:38 UTC
Message-ID: <20170117153807.g4dlv5glfnvc3zc6@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAKcFC3aqjLNUNKPDZ08rO_SBkY84uvHBerCxnSchAe8rH0dnMg@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 04:30:48PM +0100, jean-christophe manciot wrote:

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> I'm trying to purge a complete folder and its files from the
> repository history with:
> 
> git-Games# git filter-branch 'git rm -r --ignore-unmatch --
> Ubuntu/16.04/' --tag-name-filter cat -- --all HEAD
> fatal: bad revision 'git rm -r --ignore-unmatch -- Ubuntu/16.04/'

Did you forget "--tree-filter" or "--index-filter" before the "git rm" parameter? Without an option it will be interpreted as a refname, which it obviously isn't.

-Peff