Re: [PATCH-v3] Allow git-filter-branch to process large repositories with lots of branches.

Lee Carver [off-list ref] writes:

It is using the same ${tempdir} working directory that git rev-list uses
below for the ../revs file

Ah, I missed that; then that should be safe.  The patch looks sane.

Can we have your sign-off, too, please?

It's normally .git-rewrite/t, following the normal working directory setup
near line 205.

quoted

quoted

 
 case "$filter_subdir" in
 "")

@@ -268,7 +268,7 @@ case "$filter_subdir" in
 esac
 
 git rev-list --reverse --topo-order --default HEAD \
-	--parents --simplify-merges $rev_args "$@" > ../revs ||
+	--parents --simplify-merges --stdin "$@" < ../parse > ../revs ||
 	die "Could not get the commits"
 commits=$(wc -l <../revs | tr -d " ")