filter-branch: a few more touch ups to the man page
All based on comments from Frank Lichtenheld.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
maint
Johannes Schindelin18 years agocommitted byJunio C Hamano
@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ branch as your current branch. Nevertheless, this may be useful in
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ branch as your current branch. Nevertheless, this may be useful in
the future for compensating for some git bugs or such, therefore
such a usage is permitted.
WARNING! The rewritten history will have different object names for all
*WARNING*! The rewritten history will have different object names for all
the objects and will not converge with the original branch. You will not
be able to easily push and distribute the rewritten branch on top of the
original branch. Please do not use this command if you do not know the
@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ argument is always evaluated in shell using the 'eval' command.
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ argument is always evaluated in shell using the 'eval' command.
Prior to that, the $GIT_COMMIT environment variable will be set to contain
the id of the commit being rewritten. Also, GIT_AUTHOR_NAME,
directory set to the root of the checked out tree. The new tree
is then used as-is (new files are auto-added, disappeared files
are auto-removed - neither .gitignore files nor any other ignore
rules HAVE ANY EFFECT!).
rules *HAVE ANY EFFECT*!).
--index-filter <command>::
This is the filter for rewriting the index. It is similar to the
@ -128,8 +128,9 @@ attached, the rewritten tag won't have it. Sorry. (It is by
@@ -128,8 +128,9 @@ attached, the rewritten tag won't have it. Sorry. (It is by
definition impossible to preserve signatures at any rate.)
--subdirectory-filter <directory>::
Only ever look at the history, which touches the given subdirectory.
The result will contain that directory as its project root.
Only look at the history which touches the given subdirectory.
The result will contain that directory (and only that) as its
project root.
-d <directory>::
Use this option to set the path to the temporary directory used for