git-filter-branch: Clarify file removal example.
Signed-off-by: Jon Loeliger <jdl@jdl.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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git filter-branch --tree-filter 'rm filename' HEAD
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However, if the file is absent from the tree of some commit,
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a simple `rm filename` will fail for that tree and commit.
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Thus you may instead want to use `rm -f filename` as the script.
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A significantly faster version:
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