Hi, On Sat, 25 Oct 2008, Pascal Obry wrote: > Anyway, I used to run the following command: > > $ git filter-branch --tag-name-filter cat --parent-filter "sed -e > 's/^$/-p c96d4da294667de1800687d25340551683153002/'" svn-release_2_6 > > without problem, I now get this: > > Namespace refs/original/ not empty > rm: cannot remove directory > `/home/obry/dev/repositories/git/proj/.git-rewrite': Directory not empty It is a (maybe ill-conceived) feature. When branches are rewritten, their original versions are stored in the refs/original/ namespace. You can force overwriting with "-f". I wonder if people would like to have this feature removed; reflogs should be enough. Thoughts? 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
