Hi there,
I'm trying to purge a complete folder and its files from the
repository history with:
git-Games# git filter-branch 'git rm -r --ignore-unmatch --
Ubuntu/16.04/' --tag-name-filter cat -- --all HEAD
fatal: bad revision 'git rm -r --ignore-unmatch -- Ubuntu/16.04/'
git does not find the folder although it's there:
git-Games# ll Ubuntu/16.04/
total 150316
drwxr-x--- 2 actionmystique actionmystique 4096 Nov 19 13:40 ./
drwxr-x--- 4 actionmystique actionmystique 4096 Oct 30 14:02 ../
-rwxr-x--- 1 actionmystique actionmystique 2190394 May 9 2016
residualvm_0.3.0~git-1_amd64.deb*
...
-rw-r--r-- 1 actionmystique actionmystique 67382492 Oct 13 09:15
scummvm-dbgsym_1.9.0_amd64.deb
What is going on?
--
Jean-Christophe
From: Jeff King <hidden> Date: 2017-01-17 15:45:06
On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 04:30:48PM +0100, jean-christophe manciot wrote:
I'm trying to purge a complete folder and its files from the
repository history with:
git-Games# git filter-branch 'git rm -r --ignore-unmatch --
Ubuntu/16.04/' --tag-name-filter cat -- --all HEAD
fatal: bad revision 'git rm -r --ignore-unmatch -- Ubuntu/16.04/'
Did you forget "--tree-filter" or "--index-filter" before the "git rm"
parameter? Without an option it will be interpreted as a refname, which
it obviously isn't.
-Peff
In case you were wondering whether these files were tracked or not:
git-Games# git ls-files Ubuntu/16.04
Ubuntu/16.04/residualvm_0.3.0~git-1_amd64.deb
Ubuntu/16.04/scummvm-data_1.8.0_all.deb
Ubuntu/16.04/scummvm-data_1.9.0_all.deb
Ubuntu/16.04/scummvm-dbgsym_1.8.2~git20160821.bad86050_amd64.deb
Ubuntu/16.04/scummvm-dbgsym_1.9.0_amd64.deb
Ubuntu/16.04/scummvm_1.8.0_amd64.deb
Ubuntu/16.04/scummvm_1.9.0_amd64.deb
On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 4:30 PM, jean-christophe manciot
[off-list ref] wrote:
Hi there,
I'm trying to purge a complete folder and its files from the
repository history with:
git-Games# git filter-branch 'git rm -r --ignore-unmatch --
Ubuntu/16.04/' --tag-name-filter cat -- --all HEAD
fatal: bad revision 'git rm -r --ignore-unmatch -- Ubuntu/16.04/'
git does not find the folder although it's there:
git-Games# ll Ubuntu/16.04/
total 150316
drwxr-x--- 2 actionmystique actionmystique 4096 Nov 19 13:40 ./
drwxr-x--- 4 actionmystique actionmystique 4096 Oct 30 14:02 ../
-rwxr-x--- 1 actionmystique actionmystique 2190394 May 9 2016
residualvm_0.3.0~git-1_amd64.deb*
...
-rw-r--r-- 1 actionmystique actionmystique 67382492 Oct 13 09:15
scummvm-dbgsym_1.9.0_amd64.deb
What is going on?
--
Jean-Christophe
Also some context information:
Ubuntu 16.10 4.8
git 2.11.0
On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 9:32 AM, jean-christophe manciot
[off-list ref] wrote:
In case you were wondering whether these files were tracked or not:
git-Games# git ls-files Ubuntu/16.04
Ubuntu/16.04/residualvm_0.3.0~git-1_amd64.deb
Ubuntu/16.04/scummvm-data_1.8.0_all.deb
Ubuntu/16.04/scummvm-data_1.9.0_all.deb
Ubuntu/16.04/scummvm-dbgsym_1.8.2~git20160821.bad86050_amd64.deb
Ubuntu/16.04/scummvm-dbgsym_1.9.0_amd64.deb
Ubuntu/16.04/scummvm_1.8.0_amd64.deb
Ubuntu/16.04/scummvm_1.9.0_amd64.deb
On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 4:30 PM, jean-christophe manciot
[off-list ref] wrote:
quoted
Hi there,
I'm trying to purge a complete folder and its files from the
repository history with:
git-Games# git filter-branch 'git rm -r --ignore-unmatch --
Ubuntu/16.04/' --tag-name-filter cat -- --all HEAD
fatal: bad revision 'git rm -r --ignore-unmatch -- Ubuntu/16.04/'
git does not find the folder although it's there:
git-Games# ll Ubuntu/16.04/
total 150316
drwxr-x--- 2 actionmystique actionmystique 4096 Nov 19 13:40 ./
drwxr-x--- 4 actionmystique actionmystique 4096 Oct 30 14:02 ../
-rwxr-x--- 1 actionmystique actionmystique 2190394 May 9 2016
residualvm_0.3.0~git-1_amd64.deb*
...
-rw-r--r-- 1 actionmystique actionmystique 67382492 Oct 13 09:15
scummvm-dbgsym_1.9.0_amd64.deb
What is going on?
--
Jean-Christophe