---- On Wed, 11 May 2016 07:08:02 -0700 Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote ---- > On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 06:47:20AM -0700, Geoff Nixon wrote: > > > the last line before it fails appears to be > > `git rev-parse --no-flags --revs-only --symbolic-full-name > > --default HEAD \210\222 \210\222subdirectory \210\222filter` > > (including the octal sequences and bad-unicode character, those > > are not email artifacts) > > Are you sure that you are invoking filter-branch with regular ascii > dashes, and not Unicode "minus-sign" (U+2212)? > > I seem to recall this coming up once before related to OS X, but I can't > seem to find it in the archive. And I don't recall if it was related to > the terminal, a keyboard setting, or something else. That was it. I'm an idiot. I sometimes use `man -t` to generate postscript for lengthy man pages so I can "page through" outside my terminal. It appears that for reasons unknown this converts all "-"s to "−"s. I must have copy-pasted the example. Then I kept using my shell history completion, never typing it out again. Sorry for wasting your time, thanks for helping me figure this out. -Geoff > > -Peff > -- 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