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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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Johannes Schindelin 17 years ago committed by Shawn O. Pearce
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      Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt

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Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt

@ -180,8 +180,7 @@ A significantly faster version: @@ -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

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