https://lwn.net/Articles/809361/ This is a special feed containing comments posted to the individual LWN article titled "Git v2.25.0". en-us Fri, 19 Sep 2025 00:04:45 +0000 Fri, 19 Sep 2025 00:04:45 +0000 https://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification lwn@lwn.net https://lwn.net/Articles/809544/ https://lwn.net/Articles/809544/ swilmet <div class="FormattedComment"> Finally found the right utility for the job, thanks for sharing the news about git-filter-repo, it would have been useful to me several times in the past if I knew it.<br> <p> I looked at git-subtree but IIRC it cannot handle the simple example [1] of git-filter-repo (that simple example is well chosen, because it's what I needed).<br> <p> I know that it was possible to use git-filter-branch instead, but by looking at some examples it looked cumbersome to use, and after all keeping the history was not *that* important in my case. Now with a single command I have no excuse.<br> <p> [1] <a href="https://github.com/newren/git-filter-repo/#simple-example-with-comparisons">https://github.com/newren/git-filter-repo/#simple-example...</a><br> </div> Tue, 14 Jan 2020 20:19:41 +0000 https://lwn.net/Articles/809404/ https://lwn.net/Articles/809404/ newren <div class="FormattedComment"> git-filter-repo[1] v2.25.0 was also released with a variety of fixes and a few small enhancements[2]. (filter-repo is a replacement for filter-branch, which was deprecated in git v2.24.0.)<br> <p> [1] <a href="https://github.com/newren/git-filter-repo/">https://github.com/newren/git-filter-repo/</a><br> [2] <a href="https://lore.kernel.org/git/CABPp-BFP38okGPTmyUJ-vVqq4=T0CypuyD05e6ArEfwhq2mdpg@mail.gmail.com/">https://lore.kernel.org/git/CABPp-BFP38okGPTmyUJ-vVqq4=T0...</a><br> </div> Tue, 14 Jan 2020 03:51:38 +0000