filter-branch --all?

From: Eyvind Bernhardsen <eyvind-git@orakel.ntnu.no>
Date: Mar 24, 2008, 21:22 UTC
Message-ID: <263C0D8D-0454-402A-B65C-08E91F7BD5C7@orakel.ntnu.no>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0803241609540.4353@racer.site>

On 24. mars. 2008, at 16.10, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

[Regarding filter-branch rewriting tags]

> You can say "--all", and I actually expect quite a few people to do
> exactly that.  And then you cannot really say "the user explicitely  
> asked
> to have that signed tag rewritten".

Sorry to hijack the thread. I've seen you mention using "--all" to filter-branch everything before, but I can't get it to work:

	% git filter-branch --all
	Usage: /usr/local/bin/git-filter-branch [--env-filter <command>] [-- 
tree-filter <command>] [--index-filter <command>] [--parent-filter  
<command>] [--msg-filter <command>] [--commit-filter <command>] [--tag- 
name-filter <command>] [--subdirectory-filter <directory>] [--original  
<namespace>] [-d <directory>] [-f | --force] [<rev-list options>...]

I'm trying to rewrite history to match .git/info/grafts without going through every graft, hence the lack of an actual filter command. Thinking that might be the problem, I also tried the "update-index -- remove <filename>" example, but it wouldn't let me use "--all" either:

	% git filter-branch --index-filter 'git update-index --remove RELEASE- 
NOTES' --all
	Usage: /usr/local/bin/git-filter-branch [--env-filter <command>] [-- 
tree-filter <command>] [--index-filter <command>] [--parent-filter  
<command>] [--msg-filter <command>] [--commit-filter <command>] [--tag- 
name-filter <command>] [--subdirectory-filter <directory>] [--original  
<namespace>] [-d <directory>] [-f | --force] [<rev-list options>...]

as opposed to:

	% git filter-branch --index-filter 'git update-index --remove RELEASE- 
NOTES' HEAD
	Rewrite 266da463b4e59eaf06287b36b6435b8218db9f40 (611/4040)
	^C

git version 1.5.5.rc0.10.g7881f.dirty (the dirtiness is in git- submodule.sh, and I've tried it with older, cleaner versions).

Am I just stupid and/or crazy, or does it not work?

-- 
Eyvind Bernhardsen