From: Junio C Hamano Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2017 13:14:17 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] add [--] to usage of filter-branch Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Andreas Heiduk writes: > Am 03.06.2017 um 12:17 schrieb Andreas Heiduk: >> Signed-off-by: Andreas Heiduk >> --- >> Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt | 3 ++- >> git-filter-branch.sh | 2 +- >> 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) >> >> diff --git a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt >> index 45c849d8c..1efdda804 100644 >> --- a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt >> +++ b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt >> @@ -86,7 +86,8 @@ OPTIONS >> This is not a real filter executed for each commit but a one >> time setup just before the loop. Therefore no commit-specific >> variables are defined yet. Functions or variables defined here >> - can be used or modified in the following filter steps. >> + can be used or modified in the following filter steps except >> + the commit filter, for technical reasons. > > I'll move that into the previous commit. Yeah, the description of "technical limitation" is different from clarifying the disambiguating "--" in the documentation. I am curious what the "technical reason" really is, though ;-)