Hi, On Tue, 24 Jul 2007, Johannes Sixt wrote: > 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> Hmm. Maybe we should reconsider the logic. I.e. instead of *) usage *) break > > @@ -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}$') > > (Except the the '{40}' part is not portable. Hmpf.) To keep the "--since=..." we have to lose the "--revs-only"... Darn. I thought that "--since=" was expanded by rev-parse. FWIW this might work: negatives="$(git rev-parse "$@" | while read line do case "$line" in $_x40) ;; *) echo "$line";; esac done)" Can you please test? I am off for lunch. Ciao, Dscho - 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