Using the --state-branch option allows us to perform incremental filtering. This may lead to having nothing to rewrite in subsequent filtering, so we need a way to recognize this case. So, let's exit with 2 instead of 1 when this "error" occurs. Signed-off-by: Michele Locati <michele@xxxxxxxxx> --- git-filter-branch.sh | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/git-filter-branch.sh b/git-filter-branch.sh index 1b7e4b2cd..c285fdb90 100755 --- a/git-filter-branch.sh +++ b/git-filter-branch.sh @@ -310,7 +310,7 @@ git rev-list --reverse --topo-order --default HEAD \ die "Could not get the commits" commits=$(wc -l <../revs | tr -d " ") -test $commits -eq 0 && die "Found nothing to rewrite" +test $commits -eq 0 && die_with_status 2 "Found nothing to rewrite" # Rewrite the commits report_progress () -- 2.16.2.windows.1
