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

2013-12-04 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 5:44 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com 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

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

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

2013-12-03 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 5:44 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com 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