On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 08:11:49AM +0100, Peter Karlsson wrote: > I ended up doing CRLF conversion for most of the repositories I had > converted. Fortunately, most of them had a single branch, so after > having created a small script that did CRLF->LF for the text files, I > could do a > > git filter-branch --tree-filter 'c:/temp/crlf2lf.sh' \ > --tag-name-filter 'cat' HEAD > > on each repository and get everything converted during my lunch break. Sure, but that is quite slow on a larger tree, since it has to do a full checkout for each commit. The idea of the specialized filter was to avoid that. But if your project was small enough to do it that way, that certainly works. > What I couldn't figure out is why, after converting everything, > removing all references to the repositories I cloned from, and removing > references to the old objects in the reflogs, why > > git fsck --unreachable > > did not report any unreachable objects? I would have guessed the entire > old history and its objects would now be invalidated and could be > killed off. Did you remove refs/original/ ? -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
