Hi, On Thu, 20 Dec 2007, Jonathan del Strother wrote: > I ended up trying to filter-branch my repository, see if I could come > up with a version stripped of all our private code, suitable for > making public. Disappointingly, filter-branch magically fixes all the > commits, even when simply run as "git filter-branch HEAD". > > However, looking at the rewritten repository vs the original, they > share a lot of commits, then diverge halfway through their history. I > can't see anything notable about the commit where they diverge, with > the exception that the rewritten commit has a newline after the > subject and the original doesn't. Neither has a commit message body. I do not see how Rene's patch could _not_ have fixed that problem. As it is, I cannot even reproduce without that patch. This is what I was trying: -- snip -- diff --git a/t/t4025-pretty-format.sh b/t/t4025-pretty-format.sh new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2826bcb --- /dev/null +++ b/t/t4025-pretty-format.sh @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +#!/bin/sh + +test_description='git pretty formats' + +. ./test-lib.sh + +test_expect_success 'setup' ' + + : > file && + git add file && + tree=$(git write-tree) && + commit=$(echo No newlin | tr "\\012" e | git commit-tree $tree) && + git update-ref HEAD $commit + +' + +test_expect_success 'format:%b' ' + + test -z "$(git log -1 --pretty=format:%b)" + +' + +test_done -- snap -- Seems I cannot help any more, but at least this is a starting point to try to reproduce. 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