From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: [PATCH 1/2] fix filter-branch documentation Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 03:22:25 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: References: <18197.24051.863751.436705@lisa.zopyra.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, spearce@spearce.org, gitster@pobox.com To: Bill Lear X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Oct 17 04:22:49 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IhyYX-0007oG-Mo for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 17 Oct 2007 04:22:46 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753631AbXJQCWe (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:22:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754103AbXJQCWe (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:22:34 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:55975 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1753617AbXJQCWd (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:22:33 -0400 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 17 Oct 2007 02:22:31 -0000 Received: from wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de (EHLO openvpn-client) [132.187.25.13] by mail.gmx.net (mp037) with SMTP; 17 Oct 2007 04:22:31 +0200 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+eagFIMlSexpwLQ1lgDYPyVUSI9gqQkH9KTzo853 Nm3ClZ7F3mZyjq X-X-Sender: gene099@racer.site In-Reply-To: <18197.24051.863751.436705@lisa.zopyra.com> X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: The man page for filter-branch still talked about writing the result to the branch "newbranch". This is hopefully the last place where the old behaviour was described. Noticed by Bill Lear. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin --- Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt | 3 +-- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt index c878ed3..ba9b4fb 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt @@ -180,8 +180,7 @@ A significantly faster version: git filter-branch --index-filter 'git update-index --remove filename' HEAD -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -Now, you will get the rewritten history saved in the branch 'newbranch' -(your current branch is left untouched). +Now, you will get the rewritten history saved in HEAD. To set a commit (which typically is at the tip of another history) to be the parent of the current initial commit, in -- 1.5.3.4.1223.ga973c