Re: Converting from svn to git

OK, I did

$ git-filter-branch --tree-filter 'rm -rf subdir1/ subdir2/ subdir3/' -- --all

which looks good, except when I open gitk, I still see "empty" commits
that correspond to subdir1/, subdir2/ and subdir3/.

Is there anyway to remove those?

Many thanks!

Cheers,
David

On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 11:48 AM, David Neu [off-list ref] wrote:

That's great - thanks to everyone!

On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 11:32 AM, Michael J Gruber
[off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

David Neu venit, vidit, dixit 10.08.2008 16:54:

quoted

Thanks for the reply - this looks like what I'd need, but
I can't see how to keep the contents of the base dir and
lose the subdirs, e.g.

$ git-filter-branch --subdirectory-filter . HEAD

removes all subdirs and the contents of the base dir.

So, I figure I'd remove each subdir, using

$ git-filter-branch --tree-filter 'rm -rf subdir1/' HEAD

but this complains if subdir1 contains subdirectories, it
says: Namespace refs/original/ not empty

It complains because filter-branch stores the original refs in that
namespace, and on the second filter-branch run it wants to do this again.
You can avoid this by using the "-f" option to filter-branch, or by removing
all subsirs in one go ("rm -rf subdir1 subdir2..."). Also, you might want to
rewrite all refs ("--all"), not just HEAD.

Michael

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