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

From: jean-christophe manciot <actionmystique@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 19, 2017, 08:42 UTC
Message-ID: <CAKcFC3aHZP5-MJaNj4vv_qBwY3xNRodYnfw0P-G-Q+XfaRf=Cw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAKcFC3ZN+=o_2t4AawCE0c4Tw+t_XJKTHtEq9d7bv-ht5euPbw@mail.gmail.com>

Also some context information: Ubuntu 16.10 4.8 git 2.11.0

On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 9:32 AM, jean-christophe manciot <actionmystique@gmail.com> wrote:

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> 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:
>> 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

-- 
Jean-Christophe