# [PATCH] cg-admin-rewritehist: fix reappearing files with --filter-tree.

1 messages from 2006-04-29 to 2006-04-29. Participants: Johannes Sixt.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/4002

## Johannes Sixt, 2006-04-29 21:45

Subject: [PATCH] cg-admin-rewritehist: fix reappearing files with --filter-tree.
Message-ID: <20060429214540.524C14A5A6@dx.sixt.local>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20060429214540.524C14A5A6%40dx.sixt.local

```
With --filter-tree a working copy is checked out for each commit.
However, if a file is removed by a commit, the file is _not_ removed
from the working copy by git-checkout-index. This must be done explicitly,
otherwise the file becomes added back again.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>

---

 cg-admin-rewritehist |    5 ++++-
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

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diff --git a/cg-admin-rewritehist b/cg-admin-rewritehist
index 7dd83cf..13ffb5d 100755
--- a/cg-admin-rewritehist
+++ b/cg-admin-rewritehist
@@ -213,10 +213,13 @@ while read commit; do
 
 	if [ "$filter_tree" ]; then
 		git-checkout-index -f -u -a
+		# files that $commit removed are now still in the working tree;
+		# remove them, else they would be added again
+		git-ls-files -z --others | xargs -0 rm -f
 		eval "$filter_tree"
 		git-diff-index -r $commit | cut -f 2- | tr '\n' '\0' | \
 			xargs -0 git-update-index --add --replace --remove
-		git-ls-files --others | tr '\n' '\0' | \
+		git-ls-files -z --others | \
 			xargs -0 git-update-index --add --replace --remove
 	fi
 
-- 
1.3.1.gaa6b

```