On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote: > I haven't checked, but is "$tempdir" not the working directory? If so, > this would lead to funny interaction with --tree-filter. Rather, I'd > write the file into "$GIT_DIR". Likewise the other files. The working directory actually lives one level down: tempdir=.git-rewrite workdir="$tempdir/t" At the end of the script, git-filter-branch cleans up all of its temporary files by deleting $tempdir. There's actually a fair bit of stuff in there already, and none of it interferes with --tree-filter. > That's not how it is supposed to be used. Rather, > > test_expect_success $LABEL ' > test_must_fail git filter-branc $OPTIONS > ' Will fix. Thank you. I really appreciate all this feedback from the git team. Thank you for taking the time to help me get this right! Cheers, Eric -- 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