From: shawn wilson <ag4ve.us@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2013 21:07:39 GMT
Subject: Re: Repo with only one file
Message-ID: <CAH_OBicysTTu9YdHsHz0H6x3umU5va68J3nT1qHA9-CJY9+E=A@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <520224E0.5060206@viscovery.net>

On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 6:43 AM, Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net> wrote:
> Am 8/7/2013 8:24, schrieb shawn wilson:> ... create a repo for one of
>> these scripts and I'd like to keep the commit history.
>>
>> Ok, so:
>> % find -type f ! -iname "webban.pl" | while read f; do git
>> filter-branch -f --index-filter "git rm --cached --ignore-unmatch $f"
>> HEAD ; done
>>
>> Which basically did it. But, I've got this one commit that seems to be
>> orphaned - it doesn't change any files.
>
> Try this:
>
>   git filter-branch HEAD -- webban.pl
>

 % git filter-branch HEAD -- webban.pl
Cannot create a new backup.
A previous backup already exists in refs/original/
Force overwriting the backup with -f
 % git filter-branch -f HEAD -- webban.pl
Rewrite 1e04b18c256c996312f167be808733bcc755f1e3 (9/9)
WARNING: Ref 'refs/heads/master' is unchanged