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Re: [PATCH] filter-branch: Big syntax change; support rewriting multiple refs

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jul 24, 2007, 05:35 UTC
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Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
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> 	Junio, I know that this comes quite late in the game, but I really
> 	think that the "first arg is new branch name" was a bad syntax.
>
> 	Could you please consider taking this patch (or whatever version
> 	comes out after review ;-) or keeping filter-branch of 1.5.3?  I 
> 	do not want people to get used to the borked syntax...
Yeah, "No new features after -rc" should not apply to this one.

I was actually going to ask you about it, since this is a feature we have already advertised to the public, but still is a new feature, and we'd be better off getting it right in the first public version.

> 	BTW I considered "git log -g --all" as an alternative to 
> 	inspecting refs/original/, but ATM this die()s if just _one_ of 
> 	the refs has no logs.  Probably should fix that, too.

I do not think refs/original/ is such a hot feature. What's wrong with "gitk mine@{1}...mine"?

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Message 2 of 20 in “filter-branch: Big syntax change; support rewriting multiple refs”
  1. filter-branch: Big syntax change; support rewriting multiple refsJohannes Schindelin, Jul 23, 2007
  2. Junio C HamanoJul 24, 2007
  3. Johannes SchindelinJul 24, 2007
  4. Johannes SixtJul 24, 2007
  5. filter-branch: when dwim'ing a ref, only allow heads and tagsJohannes Schindelin, Jul 24, 2007
  6. Johannes SixtJul 24, 2007
  7. Johannes SchindelinJul 24, 2007
  8. filter-branch: when dwim'ing a ref, only allow heads and tagsJohannes Schindelin, Jul 24, 2007
  9. filter-branch: rewrite only refs which were not excluded by the optionsJohannes Schindelin, Jul 24, 2007
  10. Johannes SixtJul 24, 2007
  11. Johannes SchindelinJul 24, 2007
  12. Johannes SixtJul 24, 2007
  13. Johannes SchindelinJul 24, 2007
  14. Johannes SixtJul 24, 2007
  15. Johannes SchindelinJul 24, 2007
  16. Johannes SixtJul 24, 2007
  17. Johannes SchindelinJul 24, 2007
  18. filter-branch: rewrite only unexcluded refsJohannes Schindelin, Jul 24, 2007
  19. Johannes SixtJul 24, 2007
  20. Johannes SchindelinJul 24, 2007

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