From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2013 10:43:44 GMT
Subject: Re: Repo with only one file
Message-ID: <520224E0.5060206@viscovery.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAH_OBid8SO3ydpjhRHa68s+54CScLh=jactxTQhwQPo-jcnAvA@mail.gmail.com>

Am 8/7/2013 8:24, schrieb shawn wilson:> ... create a repo for one of
> these scripts and I'd like to keep the commit history.
>
> Ok, so:
> % find -type f ! -iname "webban.pl" | while read f; do git
> filter-branch -f --index-filter "git rm --cached --ignore-unmatch $f"
> HEAD ; done
>
> Which basically did it. But, I've got this one commit that seems to be
> orphaned - it doesn't change any files.

Try this:

  git filter-branch HEAD -- webban.pl

-- Hannes