From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 09:27:09 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] git-filter-branch.sh: don't use --default when calling rev-list
Message-ID: <7vwspqcple.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <47A19211.5090409@op5.se>

Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> writes:

> Well, if there's no filter specified it has nothing to do, so erroring out
> in the no-arguments-at-all case would be sensible.

Actually, not erroring out but just returning doing nothing (if
there truly isn't anything to do -- iow, the filtering operation
turns out to be identity function) would be more sensible.

No filter does not necessarily mean identity, by the way.  Think
"grafts" ;-).