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authorJohannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>2007-10-17 03:22:25 +0100
committerShawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>2007-10-16 22:47:51 -0400
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fix filter-branch documentation
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 <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
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@@ -180,8 +180,7 @@ A significantly faster version:
git filter-branch --index-filter 'git update-index --remove filename' HEAD
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-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