Re: msysGit: "git filter-branch --subdirectory-filter" doesn't work at all

From: Dirk Süsserott <newsletter@dirk.my1.cc>
Date: May 27, 2008, 20:57 UTC
Message-ID: <483C75AD.5080206@dirk.my1.cc>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0805262233190.30431@racer>

Johannes Schindelin schrieb:

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> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 26 May 2008, Dirk Süsserott wrote:
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>   
>> $ git filter-branch --subdirectory-filter perl
>>     
>
> And what branch, exactly, do you want to rewrite?  You did not specify 
> _any_ branch here.
>
> Ciao,
> Dscho

Hi,

thanks, that helped a lot. As said, I've no actual use case for git-filter-branch but was just curious about the usage. So this wasn't an issue with msysGit or Windows, even though I thought that at first glance.

As I noticed from one of your replies to the 'Commit cce8d6fdb introduces...' thread, you seem to be somewhat annoyed by people asking for Windows compatibility. That was not the case here, I just wanted to state that. ;-)

To my opinion the --subdirectory-filter switch isn't documented very well. When I find out and have an example, I'll post it.

    Dirk