- Remove "DESTBRANCH" from usage, as it rewrites the branches given. - Remove an = from an example usage, as the script doesn't understand it. Signed-off-by: Brian Gernhardt <benji@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- On Aug 17, 2007, at 5:53 PM, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > On Fri, 17 Aug 2007, Brian Gernhardt wrote: > >> -USAGE="git-filter-branch [-d TEMPDIR] [FILTERS] DESTBRANCH [REV-RANGE]" >> +USAGE="git-filter-branch [-d TEMPDIR] [FILTERS] [BRANCHES]" > > It is not just [BRANCHES]. Something like "HEAD~2..HEAD" is perfectly > valid, and it will rewrite only the commits in that range, leaving HEAD~2 > and ancestors alone. Well then that should be left as REV-RANGE then, but DESTBRANCH still needs to leave. 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..0190060 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] [REV-RANGE]" . git-sh-setup warn () { -- 1.5.3.rc5.11.g312e - 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