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diff --git a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt index 0f2f11738..81f58234a 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt @@ -96,8 +96,8 @@ OPTIONS --index-filter <command>:: This is the filter for rewriting the index. It is similar to the tree filter but does not check out the tree, which makes it much - faster. Frequently used with `git rm \--cached - \--ignore-unmatch ...`, see EXAMPLES below. For hairy + faster. Frequently used with `git rm --cached + --ignore-unmatch ...`, see EXAMPLES below. For hairy cases, see linkgit:git-update-index[1]. --parent-filter <command>:: @@ -222,11 +222,11 @@ However, if the file is absent from the tree of some commit, a simple `rm filename` will fail for that tree and commit. Thus you may instead want to use `rm -f filename` as the script. -Using `\--index-filter` with 'git rm' yields a significantly faster +Using `--index-filter` with 'git rm' yields a significantly faster version. Like with using `rm filename`, `git rm --cached filename` will fail if the file is absent from the tree of a commit. If you want to "completely forget" a file, it does not matter when it entered -history, so we also add `\--ignore-unmatch`: +history, so we also add `--ignore-unmatch`: -------------------------------------------------------------------------- git filter-branch --index-filter 'git rm --cached --ignore-unmatch filename' HEAD @@ -242,8 +242,8 @@ git filter-branch --subdirectory-filter foodir -- --all ------------------------------------------------------- Thus you can, e.g., turn a library subdirectory into a repository of -its own. Note the `\--` that separates 'filter-branch' options from -revision options, and the `\--all` to rewrite all branches and tags. +its own. Note the `--` that separates 'filter-branch' options from +revision options, and the `--all` to rewrite all branches and tags. To set a commit (which typically is at the tip of another history) to be the parent of the current initial commit, in @@ -371,23 +371,23 @@ Checklist for Shrinking a Repository ------------------------------------ git-filter-branch is often used to get rid of a subset of files, -usually with some combination of `\--index-filter` and -`\--subdirectory-filter`. People expect the resulting repository to +usually with some combination of `--index-filter` and +`--subdirectory-filter`. People expect the resulting repository to be smaller than the original, but you need a few more steps to actually make it smaller, because git tries hard not to lose your objects until you tell it to. First make sure that: * You really removed all variants of a filename, if a blob was moved - over its lifetime. `git log \--name-only \--follow \--all \-- - filename` can help you find renames. + over its lifetime. `git log --name-only --follow --all -- filename` + can help you find renames. -* You really filtered all refs: use `\--tag-name-filter cat \-- - \--all` when calling git-filter-branch. +* You really filtered all refs: use `--tag-name-filter cat -- --all` + when calling git-filter-branch. Then there are two ways to get a smaller repository. A safer way is to clone, that keeps your original intact. -* Clone it with `git clone +++file:///path/to/repo+++`. The clone +* Clone it with `git clone file:///path/to/repo`. The clone will not have the removed objects. See linkgit:git-clone[1]. (Note that cloning with a plain path just hardlinks everything!) @@ -397,14 +397,14 @@ approach, so *make a backup* or go back to cloning it. You have been warned. * Remove the original refs backed up by git-filter-branch: say `git - for-each-ref \--format="%(refname)" refs/original/ | xargs -n 1 git + for-each-ref --format="%(refname)" refs/original/ | xargs -n 1 git update-ref -d`. -* Expire all reflogs with `git reflog expire \--expire=now \--all`. +* Expire all reflogs with `git reflog expire --expire=now --all`. -* Garbage collect all unreferenced objects with `git gc \--prune=now` +* Garbage collect all unreferenced objects with `git gc --prune=now` (or if your git-gc is not new enough to support arguments to - `\--prune`, use `git repack -ad; git prune` instead). + `--prune`, use `git repack -ad; git prune` instead). GIT --- |