[PATCH] git-filter-branch: Clarify file removal example.
From: Jon Loeliger <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:44:37
Subsystem:
documentation, the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds
Signed-off-by: Jon Loeliger <redacted> --- Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt | 4 ++++ 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt
index 8d80f0d..506c37a 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: --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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