- Remove "DESTBRANCH" from usage, as it rewrites the branches given
- Remove an = from an example usage that the script doesn't understand
Signed-off-by: Brian Gernhardt <benji@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
It took me way too long to figure out how to just delete a single file
from the history.
From the docs and usage it looked I needed
$ git filter-branch --index-filter \
"git update-index --force-remove file" \
--tag-name-filter=cat newbranch HEAD
I eventually determined the following
$ git filter-branch --index-filter \
"git update-index --force-remove file" \
--tag-name-filter cat master
The following changes changes the parts that led me astray, although I
think it still could be clearer even if I don't know how to write it.
Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt | 2 +-
git-filter-branch.sh | 2 +-
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt
index 915258f..8c43be6 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ have all of them as parents.
tag name is expected on standard output.
+
The original tags are not deleted, but can be overwritten;
-use "--tag-name-filter=cat" to simply update the tags. In this
+use "--tag-name-filter cat" to simply update the tags. In this
case, be very careful and make sure you have the old tags
backed up in case the conversion has run afoul.
+
diff --git a/git-filter-branch.sh b/git-filter-branch.sh
index c42e451..9f10c30 100755
--- a/git-filter-branch.sh
+++ b/git-filter-branch.sh
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
# a new branch. You can specify a number of filters to modify the commits,
# files and trees.
-USAGE="git-filter-branch [-d TEMPDIR] [FILTERS] DESTBRANCH [REV-RANGE]"
+USAGE="git-filter-branch [-d TEMPDIR] [FILTERS] [BRANCHES]"
. git-sh-setup
warn () {
--
1.5.3.rc5.11.g312e
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