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Re: Converting from svn to git

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Michael J Gruber <michaeljgruber+gmane@fastmail.fm>
Date
Aug 10, 2008, 15:32 UTC
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David Neu venit, vidit, dixit 10.08.2008 16:54:
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> Thanks for the reply - this looks like what I'd need, but
> I can't see how to keep the contents of the base dir and
> lose the subdirs, e.g.
> 
> $ git-filter-branch --subdirectory-filter . HEAD
> 
> removes all subdirs and the contents of the base dir.
> 
> So, I figure I'd remove each subdir, using
> 
> $ git-filter-branch --tree-filter 'rm -rf subdir1/' HEAD
> 
> but this complains if subdir1 contains subdirectories, it
> says: Namespace refs/original/ not empty

It complains because filter-branch stores the original refs in that namespace, and on the second filter-branch run it wants to do this again. You can avoid this by using the "-f" option to filter-branch, or by removing all subsirs in one go ("rm -rf subdir1 subdir2..."). Also, you might want to rewrite all refs ("--all"), not just HEAD.

Michael
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