[PATCH] git-filter-branch: Clarify file removal example.
Signed-off-by: Jon Loeliger <jdl@jdl.com>
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Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt | 4 ++++
1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt
index 8d80f0d..506c37a 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt
@@ -183,6 +183,10 @@ or copyright violation) from all commits:
git filter-branch --tree-filter 'rm filename' HEAD
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+However, if the file is absent from the tree of some commit,
+a simple `rm filename` will fail for that tree and commit.
+Thus you may instead want to use `rm -f filename` as the script.
+
A significantly faster version:
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Jon Loeliger <jdl@jdl.com>