On Thu, 2018-03-08 at 10:25 +0100, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > > The first filter-branch call required 7168 steps, so did the second call... > > I also tried without the --prune option of remote update (I had to add > > --force to the second filter-branch), but nothing changed. You can see an example of the usage in: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/devicetree/devicetree-rebasing.git/ in the `scripts/` sub dir (flow is `cronjob` → `filter.sh` → `git filter-branch...`. I think the big difference is rather than `--all` you need to give it the `previous..now` range since that is the update you wish to do (first time around you just give it `now`). The devicetree-rebasing scripting arranges that by keeping the previous in a separate branch. Ian.