From: Adam Mercer <ramercer@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 19:59:03 GMT
Subject: Re: Using filter-branch to move repo contents in subdirectory
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=G=oWaQ4PvjbkfEs2FUXgbKr3s+hWy8azSZsAH@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100811193214.GB8106@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 14:32, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:

> It looks like git-update-index will not create $GIT_INDEX_FILE at all if
> you have no actual input lines to --index-info. So perhaps you have some
> commit in your repo that has no actual content in it. Either that or
> for some reason your "ls-files -s | gsed" invocation is producing no
> output.

Yep, that was the problem. I'd been modifying the history with several
git filter-branch calls and the initial commit in the repo was empty.
Getting rid of this initial empty commit allowed the command to run.

Cheers

Adam