On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 6:43 AM, Johannes Sixt <j.s...@viscovery.net> wrote: > Am 8/7/2013 8:24, schrieb shawn wilson:> ... create a repo for one of >> these scripts and I'd like to keep the commit history. >> >> Ok, so: >> % find -type f ! -iname "webban.pl" | while read f; do git >> filter-branch -f --index-filter "git rm --cached --ignore-unmatch $f" >> HEAD ; done >> >> Which basically did it. But, I've got this one commit that seems to be >> orphaned - it doesn't change any files. > > Try this: > > git filter-branch HEAD -- webban.pl >
% git filter-branch HEAD -- webban.pl Cannot create a new backup. A previous backup already exists in refs/original/ Force overwriting the backup with -f % git filter-branch -f HEAD -- webban.pl Rewrite 1e04b18c256c996312f167be808733bcc755f1e3 (9/9) WARNING: Ref 'refs/heads/master' is unchanged -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html