Re: fatal: bad revision 'git rm -r --ignore-unmatch -- folder'

From: jean-christophe manciot <actionmystique@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 19, 2017, 08:32 UTC
Message-ID: <CAKcFC3ZN+=o_2t4AawCE0c4Tw+t_XJKTHtEq9d7bv-ht5euPbw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAKcFC3aqjLNUNKPDZ08rO_SBkY84uvHBerCxnSchAe8rH0dnMg@mail.gmail.com>

In case you were wondering whether these files were tracked or not:

git-Games# git ls-files Ubuntu/16.04 Ubuntu/16.04/residualvm_0.3.0~git-1_amd64.deb Ubuntu/16.04/scummvm-data_1.8.0_all.deb Ubuntu/16.04/scummvm-data_1.9.0_all.deb Ubuntu/16.04/scummvm-dbgsym_1.8.2~git20160821.bad86050_amd64.deb Ubuntu/16.04/scummvm-dbgsym_1.9.0_amd64.deb Ubuntu/16.04/scummvm_1.8.0_amd64.deb Ubuntu/16.04/scummvm_1.9.0_amd64.deb

On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 4:30 PM, jean-christophe manciot <actionmystique@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Hi there,
>
> I'm trying to purge a complete folder and its files from the
> repository history with:
>
> git-Games# git filter-branch 'git rm -r --ignore-unmatch --
> Ubuntu/16.04/' --tag-name-filter cat -- --all HEAD
> fatal: bad revision 'git rm -r --ignore-unmatch -- Ubuntu/16.04/'
>
> git does not find the folder although it's there:
>
> git-Games# ll Ubuntu/16.04/
> total 150316
> drwxr-x--- 2 actionmystique actionmystique     4096 Nov 19 13:40 ./
> drwxr-x--- 4 actionmystique actionmystique     4096 Oct 30 14:02 ../
> -rwxr-x--- 1 actionmystique actionmystique  2190394 May  9  2016
> residualvm_0.3.0~git-1_amd64.deb*
> ...
> -rw-r--r-- 1 actionmystique actionmystique 67382492 Oct 13 09:15
> scummvm-dbgsym_1.9.0_amd64.deb
>
> What is going on?
>
> --
> Jean-Christophe

-- 
Jean-Christophe