# kill filter-branch --remap-to-ancestor? 2 messages from 2010-08-21 to 2010-08-25. Participants: Csaba Henk, Junio C Hamano. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/24822 ## Csaba Henk, 2010-08-21 20:32 Subject: kill filter-branch --remap-to-ancestor? Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/i4pd55%2419q%241%40dough.gmane.org ``` I had some headache with the issue to which the cure is the "--remap-to-ancestor" option of git filter-branch -- back when "--remap-to-ancestor" was not yet (cf. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/112068/focus=112838). This time, in a similar situation, I had some headache with finding out that the panacea is already there and it's called "--rema p-to-ancestor". Why not cut back on complexity and get rid of "--remap-to-ancestor" while automatically enable the implied behavior for filters including a path? This was already proposed by Junio and the author of the option had no objections against this idea (see http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/130949/focus=132684). Csaba ``` ## Junio C Hamano, 2010-08-25 18:58 Subject: Re: kill filter-branch --remap-to-ancestor? Message-ID: <7v39u2senj.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/7v39u2senj.fsf%40alter.siamese.dyndns.org In-Reply-To: ``` Csaba Henk writes: > I had some headache with the issue to which the cure is the > "--remap-to-ancestor" option of git filter-branch -- back when > "--remap-to-ancestor" was not yet > (cf. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/112068/focus=112838). > > This time, in a similar situation, I had some headache with finding out > that the panacea is already there and it's called "--remap-to-ancestor". > > Why not cut back on complexity and get rid of "--remap-to-ancestor" > while automatically enable the implied behavior for filters including a > path? This was already proposed by Junio and the author of the option > had no objections against this idea (see > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/130949/focus=132684). I am not a heavy user of filter-branch myself (I used it once during the past 6 months and it was with pathspec but the project did not have any tags, so that particular exercise does not matter). I do not offhand see a reason not to. Please make it so, if you are so inclined, or perhaps somebody else may volunteer? ```