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diff --git a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt index 6454e49bf2..4a530965ec 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt @@ -177,6 +177,10 @@ 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: -------------------------------------------------------------------------- |