Re: [PATCH] contrib/subtree: Split history with empty trees correctly

From: David A. Greene <greened@obbligato.org>
Date: Jan 28, 2016, 02:56 UTC
Message-ID: <87fuxil8cw.fsf@waller.obbligato.org>
In-Reply-To: <56A4CC85.90705@semantics.de>

Marcus Brinkmann <m.brinkmann@semantics.de> writes:

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> With my patch, "git subtree split -P" produces the same result (for my
> data set) as "git filter-branch --subdirectory-filter", which is much
> faster, because it selects the revisions to rewrite before rewriting.
> As I am not using any of the advanced features of "git subtree", I will
> just use "git filter-branch" instead.

Heh.  :)

I hope to replace all that ugly split code with filter-branch as you describe but there are some cases where it differs. It may be that your changes fix some of that.

Are you still able to do a re-roll on this?

                      -David