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Re: git-subtree split misbehaviour with a commit having empty ls-tree for the specified subdir

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Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org>
Date
Jan 21, 2020, 22:36 UTC
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On Sun, 22 Dec 2019 at 09:01, Tom Clarkson <tqclarkson@icloud.com> wrote:
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> If you want to try out my update, it’s at  https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/493. The commands I ended up with were
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> git subtree ignore --clear-cache --prefix=contrib/elftoolchain 4d43158
> git subtree use --prefix=contrib/elftoolchain 9e78763
> git subtree split --prefix=contrib/elftoolchain 53f2672ff78be42389cf41a8258f6e9ce36808fb

Thanks Tom, I was finally able to get back to this, and confirm it works as I'd expect / desire. I'll continue experimenting with the rest of the contrib/ software in FreeBSD; please let me know if there's anything specific you'd like me to test with your patch set.

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