Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] git-filter-branch.sh: don't use --default when calling rev-list

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 01:27:09 -0800

Andreas Ericsson <[email-masked]> writes:

> Well, if there's no filter specified it has nothing to do, so erroring out
> in the no-arguments-at-all case would be sensible.

Actually, not erroring out but just returning doing nothing (if
there truly isn't anything to do -- iow, the filtering operation
turns out to be identity function) would be more sensible.

No filter does not necessarily mean identity, by the way.  Think
"grafts" ;-).