Re: filter-branch IO optimization
Am 11.10.2012 17:39, schrieb Enrico Weigelt:
> The main goal of this filtering is splitting out many modules from a
> large upstream repo into their own downstream repos.
> The next step I have in mind is using --subdirectory-filter, but open
> questsions are:
>
> * does it suffer from the same problems w/ empty username/email like --tree-filter ?
> ** if yes: what can I do about it (have an additional pass for fixing that before
> running the --tree-filter ?
> * can I somehow teach the --subdirectory filter to place the result under some
> somedir instead of directly to root ?
No, but see the last example in the man page.
> * can I use --tree-filter in combination with --subdireectory-filter ?
> which one is executed first ?
Yes. --subdirectory-filter applies first.
-- Hannes