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

2013-09-07 Thread Lee Carver
As noted in several forums, a recommended way to move trees between repositories is to use git-filter-branch to revise the history for a single tree (http://gbayer.com/development/moving-files-from-one-git-repository-to-anot her-preserving-history/,

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

2013-09-07 Thread Andreas Schwab
Lee Carver lee.car...@servicenow.com writes: diff --git a/git-filter-branch.sh b/git-filter-branch.sh index ac2a005..d7e0fae 100755 --- a/git-filter-branch.sh +++ b/git-filter-branch.sh @@ -255,8 +255,6 @@ else remap_to_ancestor=t fi -rev_args=$(git rev-parse --revs-only $@) -

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

2013-09-07 Thread Lee Carver
Andreas - So that's what the eval set -- does! We actually got it to work with a temporary file Š I'll send that patch in a minute. Thanks Lee On 9/7/13 1:29 PM, Andreas Schwab sch...@linux-m68k.org wrote: Lee Carver lee.car...@servicenow.com writes: diff --git a/git-filter-branch.sh