Re: fatal: bad revision 'git rm -r --ignore-unmatch -- folder'

I've finally found the correct command after some significant research:
git filter-branch --tag-name-filter cat --index-filter "git rm -r
--cached --ignore-unmatch ${file_path}/${file_name}" --prune-empty
--force -- --all

On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 4:23 PM, jean-christophe manciot
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I've finally found the correct command after some significant research:
git filter-branch --tag-name-filter cat --index-filter "git rm -r --cached
--ignore-unmatch ${file_path}/${file_name}" --prune-empty --force -- --all

On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 9:42 AM, jean-christophe manciot
[off-list ref] wrote:

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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
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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
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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?

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