Re: Problem with git filter-branch

From: Pascal Obry <pascal@obry.net>
Date: Oct 25, 2008, 20:55 UTC
Message-ID: <490387AF.8080308@obry.net>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0810252235040.22125@pacific.mpi-cbg.de.mpi-cbg.de>

Hi Johannes,

> It is a (maybe ill-conceived) feature.  When branches are rewritten, their 
> original versions are stored in the refs/original/ namespace.  You can 
> force overwriting with "-f".

Working fine indeed with -f option. What's strange is that it used to work without the -f option. Would be nice to improve the error message in this specific case.

Anyway, thanks a lot.

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