Re: git filter-branch --directory-filter oddity

2013-12-04 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 5:44 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > Am I doing it wrong? Looks like I was doing something wrong. Apologies about the noise. cheers, m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first ~ http://docs

Re: git filter-branch --directory-filter oddity

2013-12-03 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 5:44 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > As they have not been skipped, they are fully fleshed out. By this, I > mean that we have the whole tree in place. So these 22 commits appear > with foo/bar pulled out to the root of the project, in the midst of > 1500 commits with a full tr

git filter-branch --directory-filter oddity

2013-12-03 Thread Martin Langhoff
When using git filter-branch --prune-empty --directory-filter foo/bar to extract the history of the foo/bar directory, I am getting a very strange result. Directory foo/bar is "slow moving". Say, 22 commits out of several thousand. I would like to extract just those 22 commits. Instead, I get ~15