Re: Converting from svn to git

David Neu venit, vidit, dixit 11.08.2008 19:46:

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?

A while ago I "complained" that rebase would skip empty commits. You 
might experiment with that. Alternatively, the following works for me:

git filter-branch --commit-filter 'cmd="git commit-tree"; test `git show 
--pretty=oneline $GIT_COMMIT|wc -l` = 1 && cmd="skip_commit"; $cmd "$@"' 
-- --all

This skips all commits which introduce no diff. It will not remove 
branches or tags which are related only to those subdirs.

I am sure there will be more elegant ways to do that (esp. the test with 
wc).

Michael