Elijah Newren

Hadn't ever occurred to me, and I don't see how I'd use it. How frequently are you rewriting history?? I figured it was a one-shot once in a blue moon...

> I suggest guarding all paths and shell variables in markdown files withing backquotes. Seems like it'd probably be reasonable. Let's see if someone picks it up.

Sure. One way to do it is that if you have a program that recompresses a given png, perhaps invoked by a command line like ``` recompress --png --level 8...

Yeah, sorry, can you split this into two steps? ``` python3 'git-filter-repo' --force \ --path-rename 'folder_b/folder_b_3/:folder_b_3/' python3 'git-filter-repo' --invert-paths \ --path 'folder_b/' ```

Makes sense.

Um, you are trying to run ``` C:/Users/sbene/miniconda3/envs/GitChat/python.exe git-filter-repo .... ``` with extra arguments for the `...`, but that's irrelevant because the code isn't ever getting past the first argument....

Once you have colliding filenames within a single filtering invocation, all bets are off. And there's not a lot I can do to fix that. However, you could do this...

Would be similar to 38e70b69e86bd6cdcfc3a233ed6082839e0d925e, but for --replace-text rather than --paths-from-file.

It's an interesting idea, and might make sense for someone to create a [contrib script](https://github.com/newren/git-filter-repo/tree/main/contrib/filter-repo-demos) for. It would not make sense as part of the main tool because: * The...

I cannot duplicate. I note the the sizes of the repos when I clone them are: ``` $ du -hs */.git/objects | tac 981M static-blog-generator-hexo/.git/objects 2.1G static-blog-generator/.git/objects 291M dimaslanjaka.github.io/.git/objects ```...