The reported problems also apply to the next module. What appears to work is this: * Walk through the history, finding the commit where the directory is created. * use git tag -l --contains <commit that created dir> to get the tags we want to keep. * get all tags, use comm and delete the tags not in the `contained' set above. Not very friendly and I'm (with Thomas) about the status of these findings. I like to thank Thomas for giving me the right clue. Regards --- Jan On Wed, 2010-12-15 at 00:03 +0100, Thomas Rast wrote: > Jan Wielemaker wrote: > > I try to extract a directory. The result is fine, but there is a lot > > of history in the result from *before* the directory was added to the > > project. Why? How can I get rid of this? > [...] > > Now use e.g. qgit to look at the history. As from 03/07/2002, when > > the packages/odbc directory was created, all looks just fine. Before > > though ... > > That history is not connected to the filtered one. git-filter-branch > alerts you to it with messages like > > WARNING: Ref 'refs/tags/V5.0.4' is unchanged > WARNING: Ref 'refs/tags/V5.0.5' is unchanged > WARNING: Ref 'refs/tags/V5.0.6' is unchanged > WARNING: Ref 'refs/tags/V5.0.7' is unchanged > > I haven't made up my mind if this is a bug report or a feature > request, but in any case you can delete all of them and the problem > goes away. > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html