Steve Litt <slitt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > But then I view all filenames from that directory that have ever been > in the project, as follows: > > git cat-file --buffer --batch-all-objects \ > --batch-check='%(objecttype) %(objectname)' \ > | grep ^c | cut -d " " -f 2 \ > | xargs -n 1 git ls-tree -r | sort | uniq \ > | grep propdir > > The preceding command lists directory docs/propdir and all the files > it's ever contained.... In which repository did you run this? As cat-file's documentation clearly states, --batch-all-objects does not *care* about the reachability, so even after rewriting the history using filter-branch, as long as you have the original objects before your history rewrite in the repository, it _will_ see those trees with propdir, even if they are now unreachable thanks to your filter-branch. If you are doing the above in the original (or in a local clone), try running "git repack -a -d && git prune --expire=now" after filter-branch.
