Johannes Schindelin wrote: > So really exclude excluded refs from being rewritten. This also allows > you to safely call > > git filter-branch <some-filter> --all <rev-list options> > > to rewrite _all_ branches and tags. BTW, '--all' in the argument list of filter-branch works only if it is preceded by '--': git filter-branch <some-filter> -- --all <rev-list options> > @@ -181,6 +181,7 @@ export GIT_DIR GIT_WORK_TREE=. > > # These refs should be updated if their heads were rewritten > > +negatives="$(git rev-parse --revs-only "$@" | grep "^\^")" > git rev-parse --revs-only --symbolic "$@" | > while read ref > do > @@ -196,7 +197,13 @@ do > grep "refs/\(tags\|heads\)/$ref$")" > esac > > - git check-ref-format "$ref" && echo "$ref" > + # make sure we have a valid ref > + git check-ref-format "$ref" || continue > + > + # if the ref has been excluded by the other options, skip it > + test -z "$(git rev-list -1 "$ref" $negatives)" && continue Does this catch my use-case with --since? I think not, because: $ git rev-parse --revs-only --since=2007.01.01 master topic --max-age=1167606000 257061f3323dc0162f731d934f0870e919211fdf 3405729b94a654df8afbb9a1e13a4cf49a1c351c There are no negatives. Does it help to filter the non-positives? negatives=$(git rev-parse --revs-only "$@" | egrep -v '^[0-9a-f]{40}$') (Except the the '{40}' part is not portable. Hmpf.) -- Hannes - 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