From: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 19:24:44 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] Add new --index-filter example to git-filter-branch.txt
Message-ID: <BANLkTimPirVXdqwckoqEhU05iqvvpce-8g@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1303927684-6513-1-git-send-email-michael.ocleirigh@rivulet.ca>

Heya,

On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 20:08, Michael O'Cleirigh
<michael.ocleirigh@rivulet.ca> wrote:
> At work I patched git with the prevously sent --egrep-filter patch that allows
> an irregular history to be retained, like where code reorganization occured and
> you want to keep the history from the original locations.
>
> The comments I recieved at that time was that my case was an --index-filter
> variant.
>
> I've reworked it into an --index-filter using the $GIT_COMMIT variable, tested
> that it works, and have added it as an example to the git-filter-branch
> documentation.

Meta nit: for a 1 patch series we would usually put this kind of
introduction after the --- in the actual patch.

-- 
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier