Subject: Re: [PATCH] filter-branch: rewrite only refs which were not excluded bythe options

From: Johannes Sixt <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 13:23:34 +0200

Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> So really exclude excluded refs from being rewritten.  This also allows
> you to safely call
> 
>         git filter-branch <some-filter> --all <rev-list options>
> 
> to rewrite _all_ branches and tags.

BTW, '--all' in the argument list of filter-branch works only if it is
preceded by '--':

	git filter-branch <some-filter> -- --all <rev-list options>

> @@ -181,6 +181,7 @@ export GIT_DIR GIT_WORK_TREE=.
> 
>  # These refs should be updated if their heads were rewritten
> 
> +negatives="$(git rev-parse --revs-only "$@" | grep "^\^")"
>  git rev-parse --revs-only --symbolic "$@" |
>  while read ref
>  do
> @@ -196,7 +197,13 @@ do
>                         grep "refs/\(tags\|heads\)/$ref$")"
>         esac
> 
> -       git check-ref-format "$ref" && echo "$ref"
> +       # make sure we have a valid ref
> +       git check-ref-format "$ref" || continue
> +
> +       # if the ref has been excluded by the other options, skip it
> +       test -z "$(git rev-list -1 "$ref" $negatives)" && continue

Does this catch my use-case with --since? I think not, because:

$ git rev-parse --revs-only --since=2007.01.01 master topic
--max-age=1167606000
257061f3323dc0162f731d934f0870e919211fdf
3405729b94a654df8afbb9a1e13a4cf49a1c351c

There are no negatives. Does it help to filter the non-positives?

negatives=$(git rev-parse --revs-only "$@" | egrep -v '^[0-9a-f]{40}$')

(Except the the '{40}' part is not portable. Hmpf.)

-- Hannes