From: Remi Vanicat <vanicat@debian.org>
Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 06:34:29 GMT
Subject: Re: [BUG] git filter-branch failed to suppress a file with an accentuated letter in the filename
Message-ID: <87tzk9tnnu.dlv@maison.homelinux.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vd4qygld8.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> 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

That solve the bug for me.
-- 
Rémi Vanicat