From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 21:53:30 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Minor clarifications to git-filter-branch usage and doc
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0708172252440.20400@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <20070817212359.GA14197@Hermes.local>

Hi,

On Fri, 17 Aug 2007, Brian Gernhardt wrote:

> -USAGE="git-filter-branch [-d TEMPDIR] [FILTERS] DESTBRANCH [REV-RANGE]"
> +USAGE="git-filter-branch [-d TEMPDIR] [FILTERS] [BRANCHES]"

It is not just [BRANCHES].  Something like "HEAD~2..HEAD" is perfectly 
valid, and it will rewrite only the commits in that range, leaving HEAD~2 
and ancestors alone.

Ciao,
Dscho