From 8ef44519a64d3ac863a9a3a6dbdba09ea275c822 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 03:22:25 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] 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 Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce --- Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt index c878ed395..ba9b4fbca 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-filter-branch.txt @@ -180,8 +180,7 @@ A significantly faster version: git filter-branch --index-filter 'git update-index --remove filename' HEAD -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -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 -- 2.26.2