Re: git filter-branch --subdirectory-filter error

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Oct 22, 2007, 13:44 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710221440540.25221@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <200710221337.50730.wielemak@science.uva.nl>

Hi,

On Mon, 22 Oct 2007, Jan Wielemaker wrote:

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> On Monday 22 October 2007 13:20, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>
> > The subdirectory filter does not look kindly upon a history where some 
> > commits lack the subdirectory in question.  However, this should work:
> >
> > 	git filter-branch --subdirectory--filter RDF 95807fe01..HEAD
> 
> Thanks, but ... hmmm.
> 
> $ git filter-branch --subdirectory-filter RDF 
> 95807fe01c39d3092e3ac3a98061711323154d77..HEAD
> Rewrite 0a43c802dd60f53d48136a32526a4b2a5f0d43e5 (1/11)fatal: Not a valid 
> object name 0a43c802dd60f53d48136a32526a4b2a5f0d43e5:RDF
> Could not initialize the index

I suspect again that this commit does not contain the RDF/ subdirectory.

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> This started as a big project with a lot of history in CVS, including 
> moved (read deleted and re-created) files. This was moved to SVN and 
> from there immediately to GIT. In GIT lots of things have been renamed. 
> The RDF directory was created quite recent in the project and things 
> from various subdirectories were moved there.
> 
> Is there something that might be worth a try or should we go the simple
> way: keeping the old combined repo for later reference and create two
> new ones from fresh files?

It sure sounds pretty tricky.  (IOW I'm probably unable to help more...)

Ciao, Dscho