From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 17:50:11 GMT
Subject: Re: [BUG] git filter-branch failed to suppress a file with an accentuated letter in the filename
Message-ID: <7vd4qygld8.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <87bq6iw42w.dlv@maison.homelinux.org>

Remi Vanicat <vanicat@debian.org> writes:

> The culprit seem to be those line of filter-branch: (around line 279) 
> 		git diff-index -r $commit | cut -f 2- | tr '\012' '\000' | \
> 			xargs -0 git update-index --add --replace --remove
> git diff-index giving the filename as "foo/bar\303\251"

I have to wonder in what century filter-branch was written ;-)

Shouldn't those two lines be:

	git diff-index -r --name-only $commit |
        git update-index --add --replace --remove --stdin

these days, without any of the cut and cruft?