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git-filter-branch may leave tree in a nasty state

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JEJan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
Date
Mar 2, 2008, 19:31 UTC
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<Pine.LNX.4.64.0803022029540.27717@fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr>
Hi,

$ git-filter-branch --env-filter 'export GIT_AUTHOR_NAME="";' b4caa441..HEAD Rewrite cf1d02ac074041f7e570ff206d87fb47ef2b2c34 (1/1)fatal: empty ident <user@corp.com> not allowed

Ref 'refs/heads/master' was deleted fatal: Not a valid object name HEAD

$ git log fatal: bad default revision 'HEAD'

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