microsoft / microsoft/VFSForGit
filter-branch is broken in 1.0.19072
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affects: correctness
type: bug
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Description
> git filter-branch --subdirectory-filter <directory> -- --all
Rewrite <commit_id> (1/525) (0 seconds passed, remaining 0 predicted) C:/Program Files/Git/mingw64/libexec/git-core\git-filter-branch: line 463: ../map/<commit_id>: No such file or directory
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Research direction
Reproduce the issue with git filter-branch --subdirectory-filter <directory> -- --all on the reported 1.0.19072 setup and inspect the git-filter-branch failure at line 463. Trace why ../map/<commit_id> is missing; done means the command completes without the reported “No such file or directory” error.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- git
- Domain
- devtools
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100