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Re: [PATCH] Add 'rm -f' equivalent to 'git rm' example of filter-branch --index-filter

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Feb 12, 2009, 22:47 UTC
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Jacob Helwig <jacob.helwig@gmail.com> writes:
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> Signed-off-by: Jacob Helwig <jacob.helwig@gmail.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt |    5 +++++
>  1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt
> index 451950b..1fbbbb4 100644
> --- a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt
> @@ -212,6 +212,11 @@ git filter-branch --index-filter 'git rm --cached filename' HEAD
>  
>  Now, you will get the rewritten history saved in HEAD.
>  
> +As with using `rm filename`, `git rm --cached filename` will fail
> +if the file is absent from the tree of a commit.  If it is not important
> +whether the file is already absent from the tree, you can use
> +`git rm --cached --ignore-unmatch filename` instead.
> +
>  To rewrite the repository to look as if `foodir/` had been its project
>  root, and discard all other history:
Looks sane to me.  Objections?
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Message 3 of 4 in “git filter-branch examples on man page are outdated”
  1. Jeffrey ChuppFeb 12, 2009
  2. Add 'rm -f' equivalent to 'git rm' example of filter-branch --index-filterJacob Helwig, Feb 12, 2009
  3. Junio C HamanoFeb 12, 2009
  4. Johannes SchindelinFeb 12, 2009

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