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| author |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2008-05-16 22:10:13 -0700 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2008-05-16 22:10:13 -0700 |
| commit | 6d2c1c2dc064c40f6c723e0a25b5f813732fdaff (patch) | |
| tree | d53c34b99bff8a19a1932064473852ac2953d6d3 /Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt | |
| parent | Replace in-place sed in t7502-commit (diff) | |
| parent | git-filter-branch: Clarify file removal example. (diff) | |
| download | tgif-6d2c1c2dc064c40f6c723e0a25b5f813732fdaff.tar.xz | |
Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
git-filter-branch: Clarify file removal example.
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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt | 4 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt index 8d80f0d074..506c37af70 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt @@ -183,6 +183,10 @@ or copyright violation) from all commits: git filter-branch --tree-filter 'rm filename' HEAD ------------------------------------------------------- +However, if the file is absent from the tree of some commit, +a simple `rm filename` will fail for that tree and commit. +Thus you may instead want to use `rm -f filename` as the script. + A significantly faster version: -------------------------------------------------------------------------- |