On 9/10/13 4:20 PM, "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >Lee Carver <Lee.Carver@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> As noted in several forums, a recommended way to move trees between >> repositories >> is to use git-filter-branch to revise the history for a single tree: >> >> >>http://gbayer.com/development/moving-files-from-one-git-repository-to-ano >>th >> er-preserving-history/ >> >>http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1365541/how-to-move-files-from-one-git >>-r >> epo-to-another-not-a-clone-preserving-history >> >> However, this can lead to argument list too long errors when the >>original >> repository has many retained branches (>6k) >> >> /usr/local/git/libexec/git-core/git-filter-branch: line 270: >> /usr/local/git/libexec/git-core/git: Argument list too long >> Could not get the commits >> >> Piping the saved output from git rev-parse into git rev-list avoids this >> problem, since the rev-parse output is not processed as a command line >> argument. >> --- >> git-filter-branch.sh | 4 ++-- >> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) >> >> diff --git a/git-filter-branch.sh b/git-filter-branch.sh >> index ac2a005..2091885 100755 >> --- a/git-filter-branch.shgit >> +++ b/git-filter-branch.sh >> @@ -255,7 +255,7 @@ else >> remap_to_ancestor=t >> fi >> >> -rev_args=$(git rev-parse --revs-only "$@") >> +git rev-parse --revs-only "$@" > ../parse > >Where is this "rev-parse" command running? Is it always safe to >clobber the file "../parse" like this? It is using the same ${tempdir} working directory that git rev-list uses below for the ../revs file It's normally .git-rewrite/t, following the normal working directory setup near line 205. > >> >> case "$filter_subdir" in >> "") >> @@ -268,7 +268,7 @@ case "$filter_subdir" in >> esac >> >> git rev-list --reverse --topo-order --default HEAD \ >> - --parents --simplify-merges $rev_args "$@" > ../revs || >> + --parents --simplify-merges --stdin "$@" < ../parse > ../revs || >> die "Could not get the commits" >> commits=$(wc -l <../revs | tr -d " ") -- 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