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| author | Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> | 2008-07-23 00:24:35 +0200 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2008-07-23 16:57:14 -0700 |
| commit | eb72a51407228c8c7947e762d4f1c320712c9052 (patch) | |
| tree | 224de9acae00156d2e8125be453e4652795824b1 /Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt | |
| parent | f9bbefc701e319983bb8e13df8d615293c6f386a (diff) | |
| download | git-eb72a51407228c8c7947e762d4f1c320712c9052.tar.gz | |
Documentation/git-filter-branch: teach "rm" instead of "update-index --remove"
The example to remove paths using index-filter was done with
"git update-index --remove"; "git rm --cached" would be more familiar to
new people and is sufficient for this particular case.
Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt index a3edc00246..7ba9dab5e6 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt @@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ Thus you may instead want to use `rm -f filename` as the script. A significantly faster version: -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -git filter-branch --index-filter 'git update-index --remove filename' HEAD +git filter-branch --index-filter 'git rm --cached filename' HEAD -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Now, you will get the rewritten history saved in HEAD. |