From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 18:36:14 GMT
Subject: Re: filter-branch IO optimization
Message-ID: <5077119E.4060702@kdbg.org>
In-Reply-To: <fa1e05a5-54b3-47ff-bd28-dc463ebbc4bd@zcs>

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 ?

I think so.

> ** if yes: what can I do about it (have an additional pass for fixing that before
>    running the --tree-filter ?

Use --env-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