Hi, On Mon, 22 Oct 2007, Jan Wielemaker wrote: > On Monday 22 October 2007 13:20, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > The subdirectory filter does not look kindly upon a history where some > > commits lack the subdirectory in question. However, this should work: > > > > git filter-branch --subdirectory--filter RDF 95807fe01..HEAD > > Thanks, but ... hmmm. > > $ git filter-branch --subdirectory-filter RDF > 95807fe01c39d3092e3ac3a98061711323154d77..HEAD > Rewrite 0a43c802dd60f53d48136a32526a4b2a5f0d43e5 (1/11)fatal: Not a valid > object name 0a43c802dd60f53d48136a32526a4b2a5f0d43e5:RDF > Could not initialize the index I suspect again that this commit does not contain the RDF/ subdirectory. > This started as a big project with a lot of history in CVS, including > moved (read deleted and re-created) files. This was moved to SVN and > from there immediately to GIT. In GIT lots of things have been renamed. > The RDF directory was created quite recent in the project and things > from various subdirectories were moved there. > > Is there something that might be worth a try or should we go the simple > way: keeping the old combined repo for later reference and create two > new ones from fresh files? It sure sounds pretty tricky. (IOW I'm probably unable to help more...) 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
