On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 04:03:18PM +0000, Alex Bennee wrote: > > ajb@pitcairn:/export/git/fresh.git$ git-filter-branch --tree-filter > > 'rm -rf big_dira big_dirb' dev-branch > > warning: refname 'dev-branch' is ambiguous. > > Which ref do you want to rewrite? You have two refs called dev-branch. Probably both a tag and a branch (i.e., refs/heads/dev-branch and refs/tags/dev-branch). You can disambiguate by saying "heads/dev-branch"). > Ignore me. Not sure why but: > > git-checkout dev-branch > git-filter-branch --tree-filter 'rm -rf big_dira big_dirb' HEAD git-checkout prefers branches to tags[1], so there is no ambiguity. It puts the full refname (refs/heads/dev-branch) into your HEAD, so there is no ambiguity when saying "HEAD". [1] Actually, the upcoming builtin-checkout no longer behaves this way, and will complain about the ambiguity. -Peff -- 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
